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Sign It Yourself Chapter 9
Caleb's tears came all at once. "I'm sorry- Sabrina- I'm sorry-"I didn't look at him again. I took my parents and left the hospital.My father was still stamping mad. "Why are you still helping him? Three thousand dollars!"My mother gave him a look. "Your daughter has her reasons. Leave it. Enough, enough. Let's go eat. Her flight's tomorrow, and those people have wasted enough of today."I laughed and hooked my arm through hers. "Okay. Whatever Mom says."I looked back at the hospital once and let the corner of my mouth come up.My parents never disliked Caleb and Lydia for being poorer than us.They'd simply seen, a long time before I did, that neither of them was any good.It's a shame the woman I used to be couldn't see it.I spent my last day at home with my parents.It was easy and happy, and it covered over the worst of what I'd carried back with me.They took me to the airport, proud of me and unwilling to let go in equal measure.They told me a hundred times to b
Sign It Yourself Chapter 8
Lydia's voice went shrill. "Colleen, how can you take Sabrina's word for it? I have never seen that baby before today. I was home all day yesterday. Nobody left a baby at my door!"Sabrina, why are you lying? You didn't want him, so you put him out in the cold, all night, in that weather! You're that heartless, and now you want to pin it on me?"My mother looked at her with undisguised contempt. "Lydia, I have watched you grow up. All those little calculations of yours, I let them go. Girls that age get up to things. It never occurred to me you'd be able to lie to my face at twenty-four and take that tone about it."As it happens, when Sabrina went out with that baby yesterday, I didn't like the feel of it. So I had our driver follow her. In case anything went wrong."He was worried about being spotted, so he stayed down the street and recorded from the car."He got more than I bargained for."My mother took out her phone and played it, and it was perfectly clear.There I was, s
Sign It Yourself Chapter 7
"Sabrina Ellison, you are signing this today! This is a child's life! You don't get to stand there and let him die!"I'd been ready for it and got behind the nurse. "Caleb, what do you think you're doing? Forcing a signature is a crime. Call the police."The nurse was frightened of him too. "Mr. Granger, calm down. You cannot force a family member to sign anything."This is a hospital. Do that again and I'm calling security."Caleb glared at me.Beside him, Lydia was crying so hard she couldn't get air.Watching him at the end of his rope, I felt light."Caleb, if you want to save this baby, fine. You have two options. Produce evidence of a special relationship between you and this child and petition the court to change guardianship. Or respect the decision of the guardian you gave him."Beyond that, if you put a hand on me one more time I'll have you charged. Try me if you don't believe it."Just then the baby went into a run of short, tearing breaths, his face darkening with
Sign It Yourself Chapter 6
He looked at me and worked to keep his voice level. "Sabrina, he can't wait."His eyes were pleading. "I'll figure out the money. He's a person. He landed in our world alive and breathing. Doesn't that mean something?"I'll sell my mother's place back home as fast as I can. That'll cover it."But the only thing that matters right now is getting him treated. Could you... could you front it?"I swear to you, the second that house sells you get every dollar back. Every dollar."He sounded like he meant it.That handsome face went humble and harmless.That's the exact expression that used to get me to give, in my first life, until there was nothing left of me to take."Caleb, I understand how you feel."Something lit in his eyes. He thought I was bending.Watching that light come on was almost funny.I shook my head, still perfectly steady. "I meant I admire your generosity. But did you think it through? What if that house doesn't sell for a year? What if that money never comes?
Sign It Yourself Chapter 5
I held the brand-new certificate out in front of her."A few hours ago, he may have been a baby abandoned by two people with no conscience and no sense of responsibility."He isn't anymore. This document proves that I am currently this child's only legal guardian."The nurse took it, thrown, checked the information, and confirmed it. "All right, Ms. Ellison. He's been diagnosed with severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress. His infection markers are extremely high and his condition is critical. He needs a breathing tube immediately, and we need to test for bacterial meningitis. This is the critical-condition notice. I need your signature as soon as possible so we can move."She pushed the form and a pen into my hands together.The paper was still warm from the printer.My hand closed around the pen and would not stop shaking.Caleb rushed at me. "Sabrina, what are you standing there for? Sign it! He needs help now!"Lydia was sobbing so hard she could barely speak. "Sabr
Sign It Yourself Chapter 4
Sabrina Ellison. And in the line for the adopted child, filled in just as neatly: Owen Granger.Blood shot straight to the top of my skull and my hands and feet went cold.Then I remembered.A few weeks earlier I'd been registering for a licensing exam that required in-person identity verification. I'd had a conflict that day, and Caleb volunteered to go handle it for me and took my ID.I hadn't thought twice about it. I'd actually been touched that he was so thoughtful.He'd planned the whole thing. He used my trust and filed adoption paperwork behind my back, and I never knew."Owen Granger..." Looking at that name brought thirty years of swallowed humiliation up my throat so fast I could barely stay on my feet.That name was a cage.A cage built to lock me back in with the boy who'd watched me die and the two people who'd made him.Caleb saw how white I'd gone and actually took my hand to comfort me.I threw it off. He didn't even get angry.Caleb's face smoothed out. "Sa
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