Free Found by Love by Jennifer Bryan Yarbrough

Caleb's chest with so many thoughts running through my mind. Dead? They're dead?
    "Well... Okay... So... Let me give you the whole story and then you can decide on well, I would just like to know how you feel about everything once I tell you the whole story.”
    "Okay." Cash nodded at me and continued.
    "So... Somehow their sailboat capsized while they were sleeping. It wasn't a small boat but not very big either so a big wave could have done it or that’s what the coast guard came up with in their report. The father managed to get Grayson out and get him to safety in an inflatable boat but he went back for his wife and they never resurfaced. Grayson was found a few hours later by the coast guard absolutely hysterical. When I think of Gideon? Oh man... I'm sorry... That poor little boy." 
    He choked through the last couple of words which had every one of us bawling. The thought of a 9 year old boy in a life raft in the middle of the ocean knowing that his parents were dead... Oh my poor baby! He was supposed to have been with them forever and not lost them to such a tragic accident.
    "Where did he go after that Cash?" I remembered Jane telling me that her mother was the only surviving parent that the both of them had.
    "He had a grandmother that died a few years ago so he went to live with Jane's aunt because she was the only surviving relative that they could find. Well... The aunt died a couple of months ago of a heart attack and he is now living with her daughter and her husband. From what the trustee of the estate told me... They're not... Well... They have four other kids and let's just say that they're pretty much using him as their meal ticket. The trust that they set up for him if they died is rather large. The trustee also said that in the event that there were no surviving relatives, the parents wanted you to have him Claudia."
    What? But... What?? I got up off of the couch and started pacing because my mind is in maximum overdrive from every thought that's going through my mind.
    "They had that in their will? But... Oh my God. I can't breathe! I can't think. I mean... I gave him away! The poor kid probably hates me even more now than he already did now that his parents are dead and... And well... He probably loves it with his cousins. They have kids he can play with... I mean... What are you suggesting? I should have just let this go. I don't know what I was thinking in asking for help in finding him. Why? I never intended on trying to get him back. He'd just resent me for years for not keeping him in the first place!!" I looked around at all three of them and they're all looking at me like I'm crazy! "What? Why are you all looking at me like that?"
    Cash seemed to be the only one that had the balls to deal with me because he's the one that stood up and got in front of me and put his hands on my shoulders to try to calm me down.
    "Claud, the three of you had an open adoption. The parents always wanted you to be involved in his life but you only requested a picture of him on his birthday every year. He knows that he was adopted and has asked the trustee if you wanted him back now that his parents have died. The trustee was best friends with Thomas, the father, and tries to spend as much time with the boy as he can."
    "Well then how come they didn't give Grayson to him? If this is all true then how come nobody has gotten in touch with me?"
    "When I spoke to him earlier I asked the same questions and the reason they didn't give Grayson to him is because he travels for work a lot and admitted to me that he tends to live the playboy lifestyle and has never settled down and met that perfect person to settle down with. He is seriously considering it for Grayson's sake because he knows how miserable he is. He does genuinely love and care for the boy because I could sense that over the phone. As far as him getting ahold of you? He has already sent you a letter and you should have already received it and he has been waiting