CHAPTER 112 - The outside world

Eliza's POVSpring came early that year.The garden burst into bloom roses, lavender, the sapling Dmitri had planted now tall enough to cast a small shadow. The children ran through the grass, their laughter echoing off the house, their faces brighter than they'd been in months.Maya was the first to ask about school."I want to learn things," she said one morning, sitting beside me on the bench. "Real things. Not just what Vera taught us.""What do you want to learn?""Everything. Math. Science. History. How to be normal."I looked at her. Twelve years old. Brilliant. Hungry for a world she'd been denied."Then we'll find you a school."Her face lit up. "Really?""Really."The SearchFinding a school wasn't easy.The children had no records. No transcripts. No proof they existed. They'd been hidden from the world for years, and the world didn't know how to make room

CHAPTER 113 - The Gift

Eliza's POVThe letter arrived on a Wednesday.Plain envelope. No return address. But the handwriting was familiar looped, careful, the same as the letters I'd found in my mother's box.I opened it in the study.Eliza,I'm writing from a place I never thought I'd see again. A small town in Vermont. A garden. A cat. A life.Adrienne told me about you. About what you built. About the children. She said you're the one who finished what our mother started.I'm Vera's sister. I'm the one who got away. And I have something for you.It's not a key. Not a ledger. Not a secret.It's a gift. A real one. Something our mother made. Something she wanted you to have.I'll be at the gate tomorrow at noon.AdrienneI read the letter twice. Then I called Adam.The ArrivalNoon came slowly.I waited at the gate, watching the road. Adam stood behind me, his hand on my

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