The twenty minutes felt both too slow and too fast. Sophia kept staring at the elevator doors, her stomach twisting with fear and excitement. What was she supposed to say to a brother she couldn’t remember? And not just any brother, a world-famous musician whose face was everywhere.
“He’s nervous too, you know,” Damian said quietly as he sat beside her while the detective continued gathering evidence.
“He is?” Sophia asked softly.
“Terrified,” Alexander said with a kind smile. “He’s been imagining this moment for fifteen years. Now that it’s happening, he’s probably freaking out.”
“That actually makes me feel a little better,” Sophia said. “But I still don’t know what I’m supposed to say. ‘Hi, nice to meet you again, sorry I don’t remember you, but I guess we’re siblings’?”
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