Jack Morrison hugged the little girl tightly as he ran back to the car. His designer shoes slipped on the ice, but he didn’t stop. In his arms, the three tiny bodies trembled, and he could only think of one thing: ”   I must save them   . “

“Please wait!” she whispered as she started the engine with one hand and held the babies wrapped in her coat with the other.

He called Dr. Peterson on speakerphone. The man, his trusted doctor and old friend, answered almost immediately.

—Jack? What’s wrong?

—I found an unconscious girl and two babies in Central Park. They’re frozen, I can’t take them to the hospital… too many questions. Can you come over to my house?

—I’m on my way! Get them a warm room. Jack, what you’re doing is crazy!

But Jack had already hung up.

When he arrived at Morrison Tower, Sara, the housekeeper, was waiting for him at the entrance. Her face reflected worry and bewilderment.

—Oh my God, Jack! What happened?

“There’s no time. Prepare the guest room, call Mariana, the nurse. And tell security not to let anyone near.”

Two hours later, the babies were asleep wrapped in thermal blankets and the girl, who according to the emergency ultrasound was named   Lia   , opened her eyes.

“Where am I?” he asked weakly.

Jack crouched down beside the bed and smiled tenderly at her.

“You’re safe, little one. My name is Jack. I found you in the park. Can you tell me your name?”

 

 

—I’m Lia… and these are my little brothers: Leo and Thiago.

—Where’s your mom, Lia?

The girl looked down and her eyes filled with tears.

—She… left us. She said she was going to get food, but she never came back.

Jack felt a lump in his throat. A mother abandoning three children in the dead of winter. How was that possible?

—Do you know your mother’s name?

—Yes… Natalia Ríos.

That name echoed in Jack’s mind like thunder.

Natalia Ríos had been his first love. A humble girl he met at university. She worked in the campus cafeteria. They dated for a year, but broke up when Jack was accepted into an entrepreneurship program in London. He asked her to wait for him. She simply disappeared.

And now…was it possible?

—Lía… Do you know who your dad is?

The girl shook her head slowly.

—Mom never spoke about him. She only said that he was someone very important who couldn’t even know we existed.

The following days were a whirlwind of emotions. Jack secretly took a DNA test. The results arrived in a sealed white folder.

His heart was beating strongly when he opened it.

Jack Morrison: biological father of Leo and Thiago.

He felt the ground disappear beneath his feet.

“What did you do, Natalia?” he whispered.

Seeing him so upset, Sara convinced him to talk to a lawyer and to Mariana, the nurse, to legally arrange custody of the children.

But Jack needed more. He needed answers.

Using his resources, he located Natalia Ríos.

She lived in a women’s shelter in the Bronx. She had been seen there a week earlier, but had disappeared without a trace.

Until one night, he rang the doorbell of her mansion.

Jack ran downstairs immediately and when he opened the door, he was breathless.

There she was. Natalia. Dark circles under her eyes, thin, with a tired expression and shame on her face.

“Why, Natalia?” she asked, her voice breaking.

She lowered her head.

“Because you were going to be someone. I was just a waitress. By the time I found out I was pregnant, you were already in London. You had your future. I… I was afraid of ruining it.”

—And you left them to freeze in a park?

“That’s not how it was!” she cried through her tears. “We were homeless, without food. I went to ask for help; it would only take a few minutes. But they attacked me. I lost consciousness. When I woke up, it was already daylight… and they were gone. I thought I had lost them forever.”

Jack felt a mixture of anger, compassion, and sadness. He wanted to hate her. But he couldn’t.

She was still the mother of his children.

Weeks passed. Natalia agreed to stay on as a temporary caregiver while the court decided on custody. Lia clung to Jack as if he were her hero. The babies grew stronger. Sara cried every time she saw them smile.

And Jack… for the first time in years, didn’t feel alone.

But the story took an unexpected turn.

Victoria, his ambitious ex-girlfriend, learned of the twins’ existence through the press. Determined to ruin him, she leaked information to the media claiming that Jack had kidnapped the children and hidden them from their mother.

The journalists camped out in front of Morrison Tower. The scandal worsened.

 

 

Natalia, trembling with fear, considered fleeing again.

 

 

“I won’t tolerate it, Jack. I don’t want the children to suffer.”

But this time, Jack wouldn’t allow it.

He called a press conference.

In front of dozens of cameras, he took Natalia’s hand and said:

“These children are mine. And the woman beside me is the mother who fought for them with all her might. She made mistakes, yes. But no one has the right to judge them without knowing their story. I, Jack Morrison, recognize them as my children. And Natalia, as part of this family.”

Social media exploded. He was called a hero, a model father, and even “the people’s millionaire.”

Victoria was sued for defamation. The trial cost her her reputation… and her fortune.

A year later, snow covered Central Park again.

But this time, Jack was walking hand in hand with Lia, while Natalia was pushing a stroller with the twins.

They stopped right where he found them that night.

Lia looked at him.

—You know, Dad? Sometimes I think the snow wasn’t a bad thing… it was the angel that brought us to you.

Jack leaned over and hugged her tightly.

—It wasn’t the snow, princess. It was fate.

And so, in the middle of winter, a lonely millionaire found his greatest fortune: a family.