My eyes went dark. Anything that made Hailey that happy was definitely not good news for me, and honestly, I couldn't have cared less about finding my biological parents. I was just about to shove Hailey out the door when I realized that the warm, intense presence right next to me had suddenly vanished. Colin must have turned invisible and rushed off for some urgent reason, which meant there was no point in me hanging around there anymore, so I figured I might as well follow Hailey and go take a look at these so-called birth parents of mine. But the moment I stepped outside, someone brought a stick down on my head, and before I knew it, I had blacked out. Then came the nightmare. The truth was, I did have some vague memories of my real parents. My mother was vain, my father was a gambl

