"Hollis Greene?"

"Vince's first thought was of him.

"Yes," Jessica answered.

The siblings had come to the same realization.

Vince was now certain Jessica was his sister, but he still needed to find out how

she had ended up with the Greene family.

Jessica remembered nothing about her life before the Greenes. Her grandmother

had told her that she'd suffered a severe fever as a child, and that was why her

memories were lost.

As she grew up, she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, most people only

remember fragments from when they were six; some remember a lot, some just

bits and pieces.

There was no memory of Vince in her mind, no warm images of a childhood spent

with an older brother.

She'd never even known she had a brother, so she had never missed him.

Her connection with Vince was only a month or two old, so naturally, her feelings

for him could not run as deep or intense as his for her.

Still, she wanted to understand everything.

Vince, meanwhile, could hardly wait to take Jessica back to Riverside City, to

bring her home, to tell their grandfather that he'd found Salome, to tell their

parents their daughter had come back.

Vince led her to the car, opening the door for her. But as Jessica glanced over,

she remembered Herbert. She quickly walked over to him. "I'm heading back to

Riverside City in a hurry. Are you coming?"

Herbert smiled. "I'm going to visit my family, so I won't be back for a while."

He knew Vince would want to bring Jessica home, to introduce her to their family,

and that would take time. He didn't want to intrude on their reunion.

the daughter of the Zimmerman family,

would surely involve the whole family, there

would be time for them

Let's keep in touch

settle down."

"I hope you're

into Vince's car. Vince leaned over and fastened her seatbelt

to see you," he said. "I'll call them

a flight arranged to bring them back. When Mom sees you,

better."

you. I don't

sister, or a daughter."

smiled gently. "That's not your problem

brother, and you have parents. The rest is up to

brother and

somber. "It was our neglect that led

You suffered so much because of us. That's our

heavier on

I get

didn't want her to recall the years

up more pain.

got separated from us, but let's not go into that now. We can talk about it

his phone. "Let me

anxious.

with you yet. I

to say.

be the one

it this

then I'll visit

as thoughtful as

a touch of

we'll do as you wish.

first, then go home

be

he hears you're back."

Hollis, have him tested for compatibility

if he was

Hollis wasn't her biological father, so there was no need to stay

after this.

fulfilled the role of a real

had been her father by blood, there

felt nothing binding

they drove, Vince told Jessica stories

come to trust

all made sense-why she'd felt so drawn

drive only deepened their newfound

visit at Riverside Federal Prison,

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