Chapter 36: Will the storm ever stop?
Cassandra
I remained silent, unable to process everything I had just heard. My mother had disappeared. And my father... he had tried to find her. He had tried to find me. Everything I had believed about my life, about my abandonment, was shaking before me.
"So... you never knew about her. You never knew about me until it was too late” I said, more to myself than to him. The words sounded strange to my own ears, as if I was talking about someone else's life.
Michael nodded slowly. "I found you when you were fifteen. You were already a beautiful young lady, intelligent and part of the elite, so high up that even my status as a surgeon paled in comparison. I didn’t want to complicate your life. I didn’t know if you wanted to know about me, and I also
