I Saved a 3-Year-Old Girl in the ER and Raised Her as My Own – On Her 18th Birthday, a Box Arrived with a Note That Said, ‘You Need to Know What She Hid from You’

I frowned.

“I want to know who.”

“I’d bet money that’s how the woman knew to come back and watch for her next appointment. She showed up again the following week, made a scene, and my paralegal caught her photographing pages from a file cart on her way out. We had to change the door codes. And the note you mentioned in that package, I’ve got a threatening letter in my drawer that might match it.”

“Did she leave a name?”

“Jillian.”

 

 

 

 

 

“We had to change the door codes.”

The name meant nothing at first. Then it clicked.

Lily had mentioned her once, months back, a woman claiming to be a distant cousin of her birth mother.

My daughter told me she’d shut the conversation down. I had barely registered it.

***

I sat in my car for a long time.

Jillian had wanted something.