Goodbye, Mr. Regret

"Hollis Greene?"

"Vince's first thought was of him.

"Yes," Jessica answered.

The siblings had come to the same realization.

Vince was now certain Jessica was his sister, but he still needed to find out how

she had ended up with the Greene family.

Jessica remembered nothing about her life before the Greenes. Her grandmother

had told her that she'd suffered a severe fever as a child, and that was why her

memories were lost.

As she grew up, she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, most people only

remember fragments from when they were six; some remember a lot, some just

bits and pieces.

There was no memory of Vince in her mind, no warm images of a childhood spent

with an older brother.

She'd never even known she had a brother, so she had never missed him.

Her connection with Vince was only a month or two old, so naturally, her feelings

for him could not run as deep or intense as his for her.

Still, she wanted to understand everything.

Vince, meanwhile, could hardly wait to take Jessica back to Riverside City, to

bring her home, to tell their grandfather that he'd found Salome, to tell their

parents their daughter had come back.

Vince led her to the car, opening the door for her. But as Jessica glanced over,

she remembered Herbert. She quickly walked over to him. "I'm heading back to

Riverside City in a hurry. Are you coming?"

Herbert smiled. "I'm going to visit my family, so I won't be back for a while."

bring Jessica home,

take time. He didn't want to intrude on

the daughter of the Zimmerman family, and her

surely involve the whole family, there

time for

understood Herbert's meaning. "Alright. Let's keep in touch

settle down."

"I hope you're reunited with your family

Vince leaned over and fastened

happy to see

flight arranged to bring them back. When Mom sees you, I

better."

"But...I don't remember any of you. I don't know

sister, or a daughter."

problem to worry about.

and you have parents. The rest is

the brother and parents you

somber. "It was our neglect that led to you

You suffered so much because

weighed heavier on him with

did I get

froze. He didn't want her to recall the

up more pain.

separated from us, but let's not go into that

out his phone. "Let

anxious. "Please

them I'm with you yet.

what to say. I'm

be the one

it this way: I'll meet

then I'll

thoughtful as

touch of

we'll do as you

first, then go home

be

he hears you're back."

was to meet Hollis, have him tested for compatibility

if he was

wasn't her biological father, so there was

after this.

role

had been her father by blood, there would at

felt nothing

they drove, Vince told Jessica stories from

the past two months, Jessica had come to trust Vince deeply; now that

her brother, it all made sense-why she'd