Chapter 2: The Lost Daughter Returns Home
Chapter 2: The Lost Daughter Returns Home
Three days later...
The hospital room was filled with soft morning light.
The maid slowly opened her eyes.
The first person she saw was Ethan.
He hadn't left her side once.
"You stayed?"
He smiled through exhausted eyes.
"I already lost my sister once."
"I'm never losing you again."
Tears streamed down her face.
"My name isn't Maid..."
"It's Emma."
The name struck Ethan like lightning.
Their mother's favorite name.
The same name written inside the old family Bible.
DNA results arrived that afternoon.
Ninety-nine point nine-nine percent.
Emma Carter was Ethan Carter's biological sister.
Their reunion made national headlines.
But the greatest surprise came from an elderly woman waiting quietly outside the hospital.
Emma froze the moment she saw her.
The woman held out a faded blanket.
"I've been waiting twenty years to return this."
She was the retired nurse who had rescued Emma from the fire.
The nurse confessed everything.
A corrupt family lawyer had paid people to fake the child's death.
Someone wanted complete control of the Carter family fortune.
Emma had been secretly adopted to protect her from those responsible.
Her adoptive mother never revealed the truth because she feared those powerful people would come back.
Before dying, she had given Emma only one thing.
The silver bracelet.
"The day you find the other half..."
"...you'll find your family."
Ethan silently removed the matching bracelet he had worn since childhood.
The broken clasp fit perfectly into Emma's.
Click.
The bracelet became whole again.
Brother and sister embraced, crying together as everyone in the room wiped away tears.
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For the first time in twenty years...
The Carter family was finally together.
