The placing-out agent called them the children nobody wanted. The forgotten ones. The leftovers.
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Chapter 7: The Choice That Could Break His Heart
Chapter 7: The Choice That Could Break His Heart
Finding Adah’s mother should have been good news.
But Emmett felt something he hated admitting.
Fear.
Because if Evelyn Rose found her daughter...
Adah would leave.
The little girl who had grabbed his thumb.
The child who called his house home.
That night, Emmett sat alone in Alena's old room.
“I don't know how to do this,” he whispered.
For six years, he wanted a family.
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Now he had one.
And he was terrified of losing it.
