Chapter 13 - Eight Years After Griffin Heard His Daughters’ Birthday Over the Phone, He Returned With Them to the House Where I Had First Hidden Their ExistenceWe returned to my old home.

The office where I had collapsed.
The desk.
The broken coffee mug had long been replaced.
The black envelope was preserved in a box.
Hazel looked at it.
“I remember this.”
I smiled.
“You were scared.”
“I wasn't scared.”
“You called your dad.”
She smiled.
“He sounded scary.”
Griffin laughed.
“I was terrified.”
I looked at him.
“You didn't sound it.”
“I was.”
I hugged him.
The twins stood beside us.
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The room that once held a secret now held a family.
That was enough.
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