Rich man sees young beggar peeking in his car and lets him sit inside, notices his late wife’s stud on him.
Eddie stood outside the hospital crying; his heart refused to beat or accept the bitter truth. He didn’t want to go inside because he didn’t have the courage to see his wife, Victoria, dying slowly. A nurse called out to him.
“Sir, excuse me, your wife wants to talk to you, please make it quick.”
Eddie ran inside as fast as he could. He knew these could be his wife’s last words. Tears flooded his eyes as he walked into her ward and saw her waiting for him, waiting for him to promise to find her son he’d never seen before.
“Darling, I think I won’t make it. My time has come,” Victoria said, holding Eddie’s hand.
He restlessly looked at the cardiac monitor and saw Victoria’s heart rate lowering. Victoria continued.
“Promise me you’ll find my son and tell him Mama was sorry for what she did eight years ago. I want him to know how much I loved him and missed him. Will you do this for me?”
Eddie knew this would be his last vow to his wife.
“I promise to find your son, darling,” he replied, tears flowing down his eyes.
Victoria had been fighting her illness, hoping to see her son one last time before her death. Time was running out, so Eddie started to look for the boy. He’d been doing this for the past seven years ever since Victoria told him about who this boy was and why she abandoned him right after his birth. Eight years ago, Victoria was young and naive. She fell in love with a young man named Brody and conceived his child. She believed he’d marry her, but when she arrived at his rented apartment, she found he was gone. She found a note on the lock.
“Please move on with your life. Please forget me and don’t look for me. I’m leaving the city. I cannot take care of you and this child.”
Victoria was shattered. She was an orphan and her only connection in the world was her child growing inside her, feeding on her fear, pain, and happiness. She delivered an adorable baby boy a few months later. Though she wanted to raise him, she couldn’t do it alone because she had no means of money. Moreover, she wanted to move on and thought having a baby too young would ruin her life. A week later, Victoria gave her newborn baby boy up for a closed adoption. She removed one of her studs with a unique monogram and pinned it to the baby’s dress. She left him a note that read:
“Mama loves you no matter how far you might be. Love you forever and ever. Goodbye, love, Victoria.”
Victoria’s world changed from that moment. She never looked back at her baby and moved on. Then she found Eddie, a wealthy man who often dined at the restaurant she waitressed. Eddie headed a successful startup. Like Victoria, he was an orphan. He fell for her innocence and beauty and knew she was the one. The couple dated for a year and vowed never to keep secrets from each other. Victoria came clean about her failed relationship with Brody and her child, and Eddie loved her more for being honest and soon married her. They lived the happiest of days as Eddie’s business reached its peak. They were rich and could afford anything in the world but a baby. Doctors told Victoria that she couldn’t conceive again, and the prognosis hit her like a bag of bricks.
“Am I cursed for abandoning my son?” she cried and decided to find him.
But fate didn’t pave an easy way for her. Since it was a closed adoption, her only clue to finding him was the stud she left him. Eddie and Victoria looked for the boy tirelessly until they faced another painful blow. Victoria was diagnosed with a terminal illness and didn’t have much time to live.
“Will I see him before I die? Did you find my son, darling?” she painfully asked Eddie at the hospital, and Eddie’s silence broke into a look of disappointment.
Victoria died two days later, taking her unfulfilled desire to reconcile with her son to the grave. But Eddie was determined to keep his promise. He searched for the boy for several months and even posted pictures of his late wife’s stud online, hoping her son would check it out and contact him. When nothing yielded results, Eddie drove to the cemetery.
“Darling, I couldn’t find our son, but trust me, I’ll keep looking for him. I know how you loved and missed him. I’ll do all it takes to fulfill your last wish.”
Eddie was on his way home from the cemetery when he pulled over near a flower shop. He wanted to buy Victoria’s favorite pink roses. While returning with a bouquet, he saw a dirty young boy peeping into his car. The lad pressed his face against the window and adjusted the glare with his hands. He was checking out what was inside.
“Hey, wait up, kid!” Eddie shouted, startling the boy who fled after seeing him. Eddie stopped the boy and said, “Do you want to come inside and see how it looks?”
The boy was alarmed, but Eddie showed no anger or disgust. He loved children and for some reason, he didn’t feel like chasing the boy away. Eddie opened the car door and made the boy sit in the front. The boy, presumably seven, was shy. He settled and looked around the car in amazement, making sure not to touch anything. He was still scared of Eddie.
“Do you like it?” Eddie asked him.
A sparkling piece of metal on the boy’s t-shirt suddenly caught his eye. He tried grabbing it for a closer look, but the boy withdrew and screamed.
“It’s my mom’s! Don’t touch it!”
Tears rose from Eddie’s eyes. He took the other stud Victoria gave him and showed it to the boy.
“This is also your mother’s,” he revealed.
The boy burst into tears as he recognized the stud. It was identical to the one he was wearing. Then he showed Eddie the note Victoria left when he was a baby.
“These are the only gifts my mom left for me,” he revealed.
He was adopted by a family that wasn’t kind to him.
“So I ran away and left them. I had nowhere to go and wandered the streets. I slept in parking lots and ate from dumpsters. I looked for my mom but never found her.”
Eddie couldn’t hold back his tears and hugged the boy. He drove him back to the cemetery and showed him Victoria’s grave.
“Son, that’s your mom’s resting place.”
The boy turned pale with shock and pain. He marched to his mom’s grave with a bouquet of roses. Tears dripping down his face, he dropped to his knees and cried for his mama. Eddie cried along. He decided he would adopt the boy and drove him home to help him clean and change.
“By the way, what’s your name, son?” he asked.
“Jamie.”
Eddie and Jamie went home toward a new beginning as father and son. It rained that day while it was still sunny, and Eddie couldn’t help but believe those were Victoria’s tears of joy from heaven.
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