A young woman's world is upended when a DNA test reveals that the brother she grew up with is not related to her by blood. As the two navigate their newly discovered freedom, long-suppressed feelings surface and force them to question everything they believed about family, loyalty, and love.
to wipe it off him. I frowned and stepped between them before she could touch him. Ethan, what happened? Nothing. My cup slipped. I'll change. The girl kept apologizing. I glanced at her, a little annoyed. Then I saw her face and froze.
She looked strikingly, like my mother's old photos, especially her eyes when she looked down to apologize, round exactly like the Whitlock family shape. On the desk beside her sat the resume she'd just handed in, the name field Reed, nor a cane. Cold dread shot straight up from my feet to my skull. No wonder Ethan
gotten mad about the coffee. Was this some kind of blood magnetism? Ethan turned to me. Winnie, what were you going to say? I looked at the girl who might actually be the real heiress of this family. Thought about how spoiled I'd been all these years. A fear I'd never felt crept up. If I kept getting in the way of them getting closer, would he find out the truth and
and end up hating me. The words caught in my throat. I couldn't say anything either way. Ethan pressed.
What is it, Winnie? What did you want to say? My nerve mostly gone. I gripped his sleeve like it was the last thing keeping me steady.