Then, one rainy day in the car, she finally whispered:
“Are you going to leave me too?” Jake had told her she didn’t really belong to us — that her “real parents” were out there, and we’d leave her eventually. Lily is adopted, but we had planned to tell her in a loving, gentle way. Jake took that from us — and from her.
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