Goodbye, Mr. Regret

"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.

she was the daughter of the Zimmerman family, and her

the whole family, there was

time

understood Herbert's meaning. "Alright. Let's keep in touch

settle down."

travels," Herbert said. "I hope

Vince leaned over and

to see you," he said.

them back. When Mom sees you,

better."

remember any of you. I don't know

sister, or a daughter."

gently. "That's not your problem to worry

rest

brother and parents

our neglect that led to you getting

suffered so much because

weighed heavier on him with

I get

to recall the

up more pain.

but let's not go into that

pulled out his phone. "Let me call Mom

anxious.

I'm with you yet. I

say.

be the one to visit

it this

then I'll visit

thoughtful as ever,"

of pride

as you wish.

Hollis first, then go home to

be overjoyed

he hears you're back."

have him tested

he

there was no

after this.

role

her father by blood, there would at

nothing binding

they drove, Vince told Jessica stories from her

months, Jessica had come to trust Vince deeply;

he was her brother, it all made sense-why she'd felt

conversation on the drive only deepened their

a visit at