Chapter 54 - A Father's Intuition

"Are you sure you want to go inside all by yourself?" Shane asked.

Sienna confirmed with a determined nod. ‘I need to do this alone.’

"I'll be here if you need me," he added reassuringly.

Her body trembled as she walked down the sterile corridors of the hospital. Taking a deep breath to steady herself, she entered the hospital room where her adoptive parent lay in bed, frail and ill.

It had been six years since Sienna last saw him, and a flood of nerves, apprehension, and longing washed over her. He wouldn't recognize her now; nobody recognized her. There was no trace of Kate Hendrix, David's late ex-wife, left in her; she had become a completely different person.

Corrective eye surgery had addressed her severe myopia and astigmatism, slightly altering her eye color in the process. Once nearly blind without her glasses, she could now see the world with clear, confident eyes.

Her hair, once a uniform dark shade, now boasted subtle highlights and had grown longer and more lustrous.

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