Lucy Summers's eyes flew wide with shock and disbelief.
'Are Mom and Dad lying to me?'
'But why would they do that?'
Mindy Lynn suddenly had a thought and added, "Or maybe your parents didn't lie. Maybe you were switched at birth at the hospital, like in the novels?"
She thought this was a very real possibility, her tone growing a little excited. "Lucy, what do you think?"
"I..." Lucy bit her lip and shook her head. "That's probably impossible. My biological sister, the one who came to find me, said I was snatched by human traffickers when I was three."
"Huh?" Mindy frowned, suddenly at a loss for words.
She actually had her suspicions but didn't dare say them out loud, afraid of hurting Lucy.
But even if she kept quiet, Lucy could guess what she was thinking.
She wasn't a child switched at birth. She was a child snatched by traffickers. There was only one possibility—her parents had bought her from them.
Lucy's fingers clenched tightly. She was too heartbroken to speak.
