Ten years I raised a child with no father — the whole village laughed at me, until a luxury car pulled up outside my tiny house… and the man who stepped out silenced them all. For ten long years, every step Elena Ward took down that dusty village lane carried an extra weight — not just her groceries, not just Jamie’s schoolbag, but the stares and whispers trailing behind her. “There she goes again… all alone with that boy.” “Who knows who the father is… if there even is one.” She heard every wor