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He and all of her sons might have been in Paris for Baileigh and Sark's wedding, but that didn't mean that Adam had forgotten about Mother's Day, or Angela, or that this was the first one to come around since he'd been truly sure Nathan was his and thus Angela the mother of his child.

Therefore, Sunday morning, a bouquet and note were delivered to the mansion in New York:



Angela,

I'm sorry the timing of things worked out that everyone ended up away...I know that's not how it was planned, but if it's any consolation I'm thinking of you today, and so very grateful for you, and for Nathan, and for Claire. For our family, even if they don't really know it. Thank you for being there, for raising our son into such a brilliant man. I'm sorry I wasn't there to help you, that circumstances dictated our lives go down a different path, but you are now, as you were then, always in my thoughts. I'll take good care of them here for you, I promise, and of Claire, Peter and Gabriel...always. I won't let anything happen to them, for your sake as much as theirs.

Happy Mother's Day, Angela. We'll be back home soon--perhaps you'll let me take you to dinner to make up for all of us being away today?

Always,
Adam