KaelI read the name three times before it landed.Reyna wasn't blood. She was my mother's college roommate, close enough that we'd called her aunt since before I could talk, close enough to have a key to the house and a standing invite to every holiday. She'd been at the hospital when Lila was born. At my parents' wedding too, standing right up front.She'd also been the one who handled things when I was seventeen.I texted Lila back fast, hands moving quicker than my thoughts could keep up with. "Are you sure? How sure."Lila: I heard her on the phone last week. She said your name and Elara's in the same sentence and hung up fast when she saw me in the hallway. Didn't think anything of it until now.Elara was watching me, waiting for whatever came next. I turned the phone so she could read it herself instead of hearing it secondhand."She was in the room when Dad paid Wren off," I said. "She set up the transfer, made sure the paperwork disappeared. She's known about this longer than
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