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“You’re getting some meat on you.”
I hadn’t even realized he was there.
“Mr. Holbrook…”
He settled me into the chair and put the
blanket back on my legs.
“Don’t be nervous. Call me Sean.”
I frowned.
I couldn’t call him that.
Sean didn’t seem to mind. He introduced the
person behind him.
“This is the best prosthetic designer. Can you
let him help you? Tell him what you have in
mind.”
I ended up choosing a mechanical leg.
Sean stayed for dinner, then he handed me a
document with the name “Rachel Green” on
- it.
I told Summer to run east, and I took Sean
and ran west.
I fell, and we rolled into a ravine. Then I
passed out.
When I woke up, I was in the hospital. My
parents said they’d found me.
I had a fever for days. I didn’t remember
everything. Sean was just a blurry memory.
“I was sent overseas. I never got your name. I
remember you had a birthmark.”
The Holbrooks and the Millers covered
everything up.
He couldn’t find me for years. When he saw
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He couldn’t înа mе тоr years. vvnen ne saw
the videos, he recognized me.
That’s why he said he was late.
“The therapist said you’re strong–willed. You
overcame most of your mental blocks in a
short period of time.”
“So, do you want revenge?”
“You believe me?”
Sean said a child who saved a stranger
wouldn’t hurt her sister.
“If you cared, you’d know what that camp
was like.”
I thought that’s the truth.
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But my family didn’t trust me. They only
listened to Summer.
Then I’d show them what their daughter was
like.
