Mia lifted her glassy eyes to mine and gave a single sorrowful nod.
My uncle Brody had been my biological father this whole time, and we’d never known. He never knew, and now he never would.
The harshness of reality slammed into me, stealing the air from my lungs.
I thought I’d been okay with how my life had unfolded. With the adoption and my family. I’d thought nothing Mia could say would have changed the past, but I’d been wrong. The truth changed everything.
“I’m so sorry, Conner,” Mia whispered. “I had no way to find you before. I would have told you if I’d known how close you already were. I would have wanted you to know. These last two weeks have been agonizing to know how everything unfolded. It was so unfair. I didn’t want to keep the truth from you for a minute longer.”
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