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Which would happen as soon as she could spare a brain cell to focus on it

“I signed the paper forback the frustration she felt toward her sister for soie’s fault Her sister had expected her to hear the voicegling to get the nue, so she’d also sent the text

She’d chosen the Parent Portal specifically because of the private facility’s policy about openness of coical coest concern she’d had with an inseenetic history was concerned Things that went beyond basicLike a tendency toward obesity, or a history of obsessive compulsive disorder The Parent Portal’s personal database for each donor was much more extensive than a lot of clinics’ Not that she’d been seeking that kind of information, but if there was a problem, she could know that she could have all information to help make the best decisions

“I never, in a million years, expected the donor to callShe needed to sit Which hy she didn’t Giving in to weakness wasn’t perlass-faced shadow boxes lining the walls of her office, holding various fine laces and original versions of ns

Her gaze landed on the very first purse she’d embellished She’d been fourteen Had wanted a new purse for starting high school Soeline behind in middle school Duane, their stepfather, had overheard her talking to her ly rant about the purse he’d bought her for Christood enough for her He’d been drunk off his ass at the time, of course

She’d taken that plain deni lace made by his fa her stepfather She’d had girls she didn’t know co where she’d gotten her bag Just like that, a business—non as Feel Good—had started Eht plain items in bulk from manufacturers and made them their own

She’d shown up a drunk angry man and started a uy who left a deposit in a cup

“I never should have talked to Christine” Angie’s face got “that” look and Aed inside She’d promised herself she’d never, ever be the cause of that expression again The one where Angeline feared she’d somehow compromised their relationship

Angeline hadn’t been the one to do that Amelia had And it was up to her to spend the rest of her life, if that hat it took, rebuilding her little sister’s trust in “them”

“Of course you should have,” she said, stronger now as she tended to her sister instead of to herself “I want you completely involved in this, just like we said, and what if the call had been to tell us that there was so with the baby that needed i? You did the right thing, Angie I’m just”

“Scared?”

Yeah “Why do you think he’s calling?”

“I have no idea” Angie sat on the couch along the back wall of the s the seat beside her as she reached over to a sanic fruit juice mixture “But what I do know,” she continued once Ahts to that baby He or she is yours and everything you signed absolutely guarantees that”

With a head tilt to the side, Amelia studied her sister “You sound sure about that”

“I already called Tanya and confirot off the phone with Christine”