Summary

Chapter 7 takes place in 2004. Maya and Alex are working with a new adoption supervisor, Mishkin, as they wait to complete the adoption process. Finally, they get news that a young couple from Montana would like them to adopt their baby. Maya questions what is wrong with the newborn child and then why the couple chose them. She wants to talk to the parents, but cannot because the adoption is closed. Alex and Maya agree to take the child, a boy. A week after signing the papers, Alex and Maya find out that the mother and father of the baby, Laurel and Tim, are on their way to deliver the baby to them. Laurel and Tim come with the the baby. Maya and Laurel have a long talk about the baby and why she and Tim chose Maya and Max. Before they leave...