Two days passed before Grace was allowed to visit the hospital.
She walked down the clean hallway of the private medical center.
Arthur was sitting up in a large comfortable bed inside his room.
He looked much better with bandages wrapped neatly around his forehead.
A lawyer wearing a crisp dark suit sat in a chair beside him.
Grace knocked gently on the open wooden door frame.
Arthur: Grace! Please come in and sit down.
Grace stepped into the room and smiled at her employer.
Grace: I am so glad to see you awake and well, sir.
Arthur: I owe my life to your brave actions, young lady.
Grace: I just did what was right, Mr. Whitfield.
Arthur motioned for his lawyer to open a brown leather folder.
The lawyer handed a stack of legal paper directly to Grace.
Arthur: Do you know why Victoria was so desperate for that phone?
Grace: She wanted to take over your real estate business.
Arthur: Yes, but there was a deeper secret on that screen.
Grace looked down at the official documents in her hands.
The paper listed an adoption record from twenty-four years ago.
It showed the name of a baby girl born in a small hospital.
Grace felt her heart skip a beat as she read the birth date.
It was the exact date of her own birth in Boston.
The mother listed on the paper was Arthur's late wife.
Grace stared at the official seal at the bottom of the page.
Grace: What does this mean, Mr. Whitfield?
Arthur: You are my biological daughter, Grace.
Tears welled up instantly in Grace's wide brown eyes.
She could not believe the words echoing through the room.
Arthur took a deep breath as he spoke with a trembling voice.
Arthur: My late wife gave you up to protect you from family drama.
Arthur: I spent twenty years searching for you across the country.
Arthur: I hired you as a maid to get to know your true heart.
Grace sat down heavily in the leather chair beside the bed.
The reality of his words washed over her like a massive wave.
She had lived an entire life believing she had no family left.
Now the man she served was revealed as her true father.