It was a dream, so Brielle could only watch herself in a daze as she followed back to the orphanage.

Some records were burned, and she and Mark began to reorganize them. Sure enough, she forgot what had happened there.

Brielle didn't know why she had this dream. Startled awake, she rushed to the bathroom, her stomach churning, feeling the urge to vomit.

The sealed memories started to become clear: the records room, the fire, the girl her age who had pushed her out of harm's way and had perished. The girl said her last name was Fox, and she had a brother named James.

"Cough, cough, cough."

The fragments of memory sent Brielle into a fit of coughing.

Hunched over the sink, she retched. Her mind was filled with the image of charred bodies, the smell of the blaze still detectable in her nostrils.

After throwing up, she washed her face and looked into the mirror to see her eyes grow eerily calm.

The incident was indeed too shocking for a child. She had promised to teach that little girl how to knit gloves the following winter.

Who could have anticipated that that girlwould remain eight years old forever and never grow up?

"Brielle?" Max stood at the bathroom door, noting her pale complexion. He reached out to check her forehead. "You got a fever?"

Brielle shook her head, clutching her stomach. "Just remembered some things. My stomach hurts."

If the girl who died in the fire was the daughter of the Fox family, then who was Brielle?

paternity

mistake could be an accident, but two? Two paternity tests linking her to the Fox family certainly implied

eyes as she quietly grabbed a toothbrush to start brushing her

Rowlands. They had

by Aubree's situation

The Barnes had motive,

connection to the Fox family and leave of her own accord. Or perhaps

But why?

identity a secret so dark

have to consult

birth? That was something Max could investigate. After all, wasn't he trying

died all

she finished washing up, she saw Max adjusting his suit. She was

was from the sanatorium. Martha requested

a surge

moods, and she knew something had been off with him since the

exhausted from the dream. "I'll go to

her hand. "Are you sure

"Yeah."

"Brielle, you're exhausted."

Max was just as tired. Neither had rested

"I want to go."

asked for her before, and there was something she wanted

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