My brother and I were adopted as children—but 20 years later, I accidentally overheard our adoptive mother and uncovered a truth she had kept hidden all those years.
Grandma nodded slowly, as if she had been waiting 20 years for someone to ask.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that if Josh had left anything behind, it would be there.
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When we arrived, Clara wasn’t home, so Grandma Ruth called her from the car. Clara said she was at the store and told her to use the spare key under the flowerpot on the windowsill.
