Free A Forever Family (Forever #6) by Sandi Lynn Page A

She’s different. She’s a psychotic bitch who tried to hurt my family. Hailey isn’t like that. She’s a good person, Collin. She’s just lost right now.”
    I let out a sigh. “I hope she finds her way back someday, but I’m not going to be the one to show her the way.”
    “I understand.”
    Amelia walked out on the porch as my mom gave me a kiss on the cheek and went back inside the house. I held out my hand to her.
    “I’m sorry, Amelia. I didn’t mean to yell at you like I did.”
    She sat down beside me and laid her head on my shoulder. “I know you didn’t. I shouldn’t have pushed you like that. I love you.”
    “I love you too, baby.”

Chapter 14
    Connor
    My mom decided to take a little weekend trip to Cape Cod with Cassidy, Ben, and Camden. She asked me if I would go through my dad’s office and clean it out for her. She had already cleaned out his personal stuff, but the business was never her thing. She wanted everything out of there so she could turn his office into a sitting room. It was a Saturday morning and Ellery and I met Collin and Amelia for breakfast before we headed to the house. Collin drove himself, and after we finished breakfast, he drove us to the house while Ralph took the women into the city to do some shopping for the day.
    “Thanks for coming and helping me with this, son.”
    “No problem, Dad.”
    While Collin was going through the filing cabinet, I cleaned out the bookshelf. As I pulled some books from the shelf, a white envelope fell from one of them and onto the floor. I bent down to pick it up and noticed it was filled with pictures. Sitting down in his chair, I opened the envelope and pulled out a picture of me and my brother Collin at the beach. It was taken the day he died. As I sat and stared at it, an overwhelming sadness washed over me.
    “What is that, Dad?”
    “A picture of me and your Uncle Collin.” I handed the picture to him.
    “Wow. Look at the two of you. I know he was your twin brother, but you almost look identical.”
    I gave him a small smile as I looked at the other photographs. There was one of our family and my mom holding Cassidy on her christening day.
    “Dad, you dropped one,” Collin spoke as he bent down and picked it up. He stared at it for a moment before handing it to me.
    “Is this you or Aunt Cassidy?” he asked.
    I took the photograph from his hand and looked at it in confusion. It was a picture of my father holding a baby in front of a house I didn’t recognize. “It’s neither of us. My father is a lot older in this picture.”
    “Then who is it? Is it Camden?”
    “No.” I looked through the remaining pictures. I stumbled across one of me and my dad at a banquet when he won the Businessman of the Year award. I held it next to the picture of him holding the baby and he looked the same. A sickness rose inside of me when my mind went to the place of something I didn’t want to believe.
    “Collin, I think my father had another child.”
    He laughed. “Dad, now you’re getting crazy. Grandpa would never have cheated on Grandma.”
    “But he did, son, and I knew about it.”
    Shock swept over his face as he stood there and stared at me. “Who was she?”
    “I don’t know who she was. All I know is that he spent a month with her in the Caribbean while Black Enterprises was failing.”
    “Dad, I’m sorry.”
    I looked down at the desk and tried to pull open the bottom drawer. It was locked and I couldn’t find the key.
    “Go ask Juan for a screwdriver. I want to know what’s in this bottom drawer.”
    A few moments later, Collin came back with a screwdriver. I shoved it in and busted the lock. When I opened the drawer, I found a file for the purchase of a house in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, dating back twenty-eight years ago. I gave the paper to Collin as I rummaged through the rest of the files.
    “I didn’t know Grandpa had a house in Cherry Hill.”
    “I didn’t either. Let’s go, son.” I got up from the