I Found a Terrified Little Girl While Making a Delivery and Adopted Her – 16 Years Later She Said, ‘I Never Want to See You Again’

My skin went cold.

“Ruin me how?” I managed.

“He said he’ll call your clients,” she said. “Tell them you kidnapped me.

That you lied. That you’re dangerous. He says he knows people, and your business is done if you don’t pay.”

I sat down because my knees didn’t feel steady anymore.

That man, whoever he was, wasn’t just greedy.

He was cruel. He’d taken every old crack in Rosie’s heart and shoved a crowbar into it.

And she was standing in my kitchen, ready to sacrifice herself to protect me from him.

I reached for her hands.

“Listen to me,” I said. “Did he ever look for you before now?

When you were six and alone in that house? When we were in court? Did he show up?

Ever?”

She hesitated, and that tiny pause told me everything.

“He said he didn’t know where I was,” she muttered. “He said she never told him.”

“And yet he found you now,” I said softly. “The moment you have a life, and I have something he can threaten.”

She flinched like the thought hurt.

“I’m not asking you to pick me over some fantasy of him,” I said.

“I’m asking you to look at what he’s actually doing.”

She pulled her phone out and set it on the table between us.

“You want to see the messages?” she asked.

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