“You have to make yourself responsible.”

The words echoed in his mind long after the call ended. A voice from his past—one he couldn't even place-had just dropped a bombshell that left him reeling. At first, he'd brushed it off with a laugh, thinking it was some absurd prank…But now, standing in the doorway of the living room, the joke was gone. The child he'd never known about was right there, sitting on his couch, left at the Ministry's front door with a small bag and no explanation.