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The only saving grace had been that it had only been two days since the package got mailed to the PO Box my oldest brother, Devon, used for his business I’d hoped by using the PO Box that I could control how the rest of the fa all of that responsibility on Devon, I’d known he’d be the best one to see that the phone ht people and to console the rest ofup with Arthur so I could explain the presence of the package and make him promise he wouldn’t actually open it To say he’d been surprised to hear from me had been an understateest, the most sensible and the least likely to let his emotions rule his decisions But that alsome And while he hadn’t made me explain myself over the phone, I had no doubt I wouldn’t be so lucky in person

“So Devon is your oldest brother?” Cain asked

I nodded “I have another brother, Garrett and a sister, Eden They’re both older”

“You’re the baby of the family”

“Yeah I was kind of unexpected” At Cain’s questioning look, I explained, “I’ned to my case when I was a kid and that’s how my mom found out about me”

“Your case?”

“Um, yeah, I was found at a bookstore one day when I was three So area but they don’t knoho I only knew e and my first name so I couldn’t tell them much No one came forhen they ran my story in the local news” At Cain’s frown I said, “I don’t reet the family I did I had a lot of developet e”

“And then you went on to graduate high school two years early,” Cain pointed out

I smiled “My parents were really proud of me for that,” I said “They were proud of s”

“But you weren’t,” Cain said softly

“What?” I asked, startled “No,” I said quickly “I was really lucky…”

“But it wasn’t easy for you, was it?”

I was about to deny the comment, but then I remembered Cain’s insistence that he hated liars I didn’t knohy it was so iory