SIX YEARS AFTER MY DAUGHTER’S TWIN WAS DECLARED STILLBORN, A HOSPITAL BLOOD DRAW REVEALED SHE HAD A SISTER THE WHOLE FAMILY HAD BEEN LIED TO ABOUT
Odalys agreed to meet me at a neutral coffee shop two towns over, her hands wrapped so tightly around her cup that her knuckles had gone pale before I’d even sat down.
“I want you to know I fought Vesta on this,” she said, before I could speak. “For about a week. Then Trent and I had been trying for nine years, and she put a two-day-old infant in my arms and told me it was already done, the paperwork was already filed, and undoing it would only hurt everyone including the baby.”
“You could have found me. Any time in six years.”
“I told myself finding you would destroy the only stability Nell had ever known,” Odalys said.
