"What? No! I haven't--" Had he? So much had happened, it was hard to keep track. "Not recently, anyway." But had he hooked up with someone an appropriate length of time ago to have a baby who was teething now? He couldn't be sure. "And if I did, she probably went to a lot of trouble to find me here."

In that case, kudos to her. Whoever she was.

"I suppose I had it coming. But it would have been nice if there was a birth certificate. Or a name tag. I can't keep calling her 'Kiddo' for the rest of her life."