Chapter 14 - The Three Sons Who Carried the Truth
On Caleb's eighteenth birthday, he asked about his birth.
We told him everything.
The triplets.
The kidnapping.
The lies.
The search.
The people who betrayed us.
The people who helped us.
He listened quietly.
Then he asked:
“Why didn't you give up?”
I looked at Maren.
She answered.
“Because you were worth finding.”
Ethan laughed.
“So were we.”
Maren smiled.
“All of you.”
Caleb looked at me.
“Were you angry?”
“Yes.”
“Did you hate the people who did it?”
“For a long time.”
“And now?”
I thought.
“I don't love them.”
“But?”
“I stopped letting them control me.”
He nodded.
“I think that's the point.”
He was right.
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We had spent years allowing other people's choices to define us.
Not anymore.
