had walked in during the Q&A.
He hadn’t found me by accident.
And every time I complained about the wealthy family my mother once worked for—how she lost everything afterward and died still feeling ashamed—Caleb listened without saying a word.
He had known exactly who I was talking about.
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At sunrise, I strapped Nora into her car seat and drove to the address written on the oldest envelope.
The house seemed smaller than I remembered.
The garden looked almost exactly the same.
An older man opened the front
