Aryyah drove to the rehabilitation facility three days after Cletus's sentencing, Grace sleeping peacefully in her car seat, and she felt nervous anticipation building with every mile that brought her closer to the conversation she'd been avoiding for eight months.

Jackson deserved to know the truth about Grace, deserved to hear that his daughter was biologically his, deserved to finally have the answer to the question that had been tormenting him since the moment Grace was born.

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