The judge agreed with every word.
“Mom, did you see this one?” Sophie showed me a message from a woman who’d been adopted as a teenager.
Her voice was full of emotion. “She says our story gave her courage to tell her birth parents to stop harassing her for money.”
Ethan was reading comments on his laptop, shaking his head with a slight smile. “Someone called Alicia the ‘poster child for terrible parenting decisions.’”
The doorbell rang, and Ethan went to answer it. He came back with a thick envelope from a law firm. Inside were the final documents transferring their grandfather’s estate into their names, free and clear.
Sophie’s hands trembled as she held the papers. “This is real,” she whispered.
The doorbell rang,
and Ethan went to
answer it.
I pulled them both close. “You were always going to be okay,” I said firmly. “With or without this money, you had each other, and you had me. That’s what matters.”
