Chapter 12 - A Broken Family ReunitedI pulled away.
“What happened to Rebecca?”
My mother’s eyes filled with tears.
“She’s alive.”
I began crying again.
“Can we find her?”
My mother looked at Mr. Graves.
He nodded.
“We will.”
For the first time in twelve years, my mother smiled.
Not a nervous smile.
Not the kind she used when pretending everything was okay.
A real smile.
A hopeful one.
Six months later, the truth finally came out.
The evidence hidden in Nathaniel Graves’s wallet exposed the people who had stolen millions from Graves Energy and arranged Rebecca’s disappearance.
Victor Hale was arrested while attempting to flee the country.
My father was found alive.
He had been living under another name after being threatened into hiding.
And Rebecca…
Rebecca came home.
I was nine by then.
She was fourteen.
At first, we barely knew what to say to each other.
She was my sister.
But she was also a stranger.
We had twelve years to make up.
So we started slowly.
She taught me how to ride a bicycle.
I taught her my favorite card game.
She complained that I cheated.
I insisted that I was simply talented.
Mom watched us from the porch.
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Sometimes she cried.
But this time, they were happy tears.
