Chapter 33: My Father, Part 1
Cassandra
I walked out of the adoption center with my heart completely shattered, feeling how each beat seemed to split me in two. How did I end up here? Why? The letter, Sarah's words, the cold reality that my biological mother was no longer in this world… It was all too much. I had clung, even if just a little, to the hope that one day I might meet her. But no. That possibility had vanished along with her last breath, without me ever having any idea of her existence.
“Your mother loved you very much, but she couldn’t take care of you,” Sarah’s words echoed in my head over and over again, like a damned repetitive song I couldn’t turn off. My biological mother was dead. There was nothing left of her. I would never hear her tell me her story, I would never
