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Grace sat in the kitchen, her new laptop open in front of her. She casually checked her old college email account, the one she had communicated with some old friends from college with. She that she could feel secure as it was a forgotten trace from her past that she kept hidden from her husband, Jack.

As she scrolled through, a new email popped up, catching her attention.

With a frown, she clicked on it to check what the mail was about. She knew it wasn’t junk mail, because she would have deleted it immediately.

It was from Garrett Sullivan, an old friend who had helped her in the past to uncover information about her birth parents. The subject line made her heart skip a beat.

She wondered what he had found out again, because that was their deal, for him to only contact her when it was absolutely necessary, just in case her husband found out.

Well, he couldn’t find out now, because she wasn’t there with him any longer.

Clicking open the email, Grace’s eyes widened as she read Garrett’