Adopted Child

His answer made her speechless and she could only gape in response. 'Taylor isn't his biological son. How did I miss this? And if it's on public records, why didn't Adam mention it before me?' She thought to herself. 'But why would he mention it, it's not like he could have just brought the topic up causally.'

"I-I… How?" She managed to speak up after a while.

"I adopted him when he was around five years of age." He paused briefly and took a deep breath before continuing. "There used to be a cafe in Berlin by which I used to stop by every morning to have my morning coffee. Me and your mother used to visit the place oftenly in our teens. It became my favorite place after your mother married your father and got settled with him as I could at least relive the days we spent there together."