Chapter 139

SIENNA

The page trembled in my hands. Or maybe it was me trembling, and the paper just mirrored it back.

Adoptive parents: Rex Vance / Helen Vance.

The words sat on the page like a wound I hadn’t realized I’d been carrying all my life. I stared until the letters blurred, until even my own name looked foreign, like it belonged to someone else.

I was adopted.

No—not just adopted. Lied to.

Ever