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Chapter 1

Ethan

Bonnie Hart (Hanna Brooks), age thirty-eight, passed away on June 3rd at the Mee twenty-five, she received her degree as an RN and spent her life caring for others, even after she was forced to stop working due to her cancer She was a loving hter, Delilah Brooks

Services will be held

I read the obituary twicein my desk chair My head fell back and I stared at the white ceiling, conte my next steps

It was about fucking time

I’d been waiting ten years for this, for the ed on my system Obviously, I didn’t expect her to be the only woes matched The picture printed with the obituary reseiven me the day he hired me to continue his search for her

Even the fact that her daughter didn’t share her naed her name before the baby was born ButDelilah It was Samuel’s mother’s name

Bonnie had disappeared without a trace, her cold trail leaving o on when I started my search for the love ofburied under her real naet it and take the win

Sa best friends—and I’d watched his hope die bit by bit until there was nothing left He became convinced that she hadn’t loved hiether, heard the stories he’d shared abo

ut her It sounded to ht off the set of a sappy, romantic, chick-flick

I didn’t think she just simply up and left Samuel was a hardabout the woive up co, and I was determined to find out what

In all these years, this was the first ti at just the right straw I needed to get to New York