Chapter 58 The Dove and the Magpie
Sam’s name was written on her phone screen. Madeline let out a sigh of relief. Great. Now I don’t have to think of what I have to say to Sebastian. “I’ll pick a phone call up,” she told Sebastian with a smile. He nodded.
“Hello? Sam?” Madeline placed the phone by her ear as she walked to a quieter spot.
“Madeline…” Sam started on the other end of the line before pausing for a long while.
Madeline noticed how he sounded rather odd. “Yes, Sam? Is anything the matter?”
“Um… I heard about your birth parents…” Sam muttered.
“Oh… That…” she muttered. “The DNA test results aren’t out yet, so I’m not sure…” She kept telling herself the same thing. She didn’t want to get excited over nothing. If things didn’t turn out the way everyone expected them to, she would be extremely disappointed.
“Dan told me about most of what happened. If it’s true…” Sam paused for a moment. “I’m sorry for all these years, Madeline…”
“It’s no big deal…” Madeline smiled. “It was hard in the past, but now that everything is over, it all feels like a dream now that I look back at it. Once I got through it, it no longer seems that hard anymore…”
Angie…” Sam hesitated for a moment. “If you’re really Aunt Crystal’s daughter, and if Angie is Cameron’s daughter… Have you
moment. “I haven’t thought about this in the past… I’m not sure that I’m Mr. Wendel’s daughter, anyway. So, I didn’t put much
should start thinking about it… Madeline, if you’re really Uncle Michael and Aunt Crystal’s daughter, would you
Sam? Did one of them tell you to ask me
Don’t misunderstand me. They weren’t the ones who told me
and I know that you wouldn’t come up with this question on your own. This doesn’t sound like you at all,” Madeline uttered. Sam was a
DNA test results weren’t out yet, it was unlikely for Sam to ask her such questions. “It was Cedric who told me to ask about it. He’s too impatient,” Sam replied
Madeline was stunned. “Young
things are as they seem to be, then he’d be your brother,”
than the ones built through blood. Although I may be his sister, Angie was the one he grew up with. Relationships aren’t exactly formed through biological connections—they’re built through the accumulated time spent with one another. It seems like Cedric is already starting to get worried about Angie before the results
as he knitted his brows
about it until the DNA test results are out. If the results come out to be something unexpected, all of this will turn into a joke… I’m sure you know what I mean,
Sam sighed. “I know what you mean. You
care before ending the call. When Sam heard the dial tone on the other end of the
its owner picked it up. “How was it, Sam?
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