"Done my time running cons," Jack confessed, flashing the trademark grin. It had done him a lot of good over the years, fooled a lot of people. Somehow he suspected that Emma wouldn't fall for it.
Not that it stayed around for long when she continued. "Yeah," he said softly. "Yeah, she was - my girl. Her...other parent's family took her when she was six months old." And he'd been guiltily glad to be rid of the responsibility of caring for a baby, even as he missed her. "Haven't seen her since."