“Ma’am, are you sure that’s the correct number? Our records show this account is still active.”
I blinked. “I’m sorry — what does that mean?”
“It means there’s been recent activity.”
“Our records show this account is still active.”
When I arrived home, all seven of them were waiting in the hallway.
Aaron spoke first. “Well?”
I shut the door and sat down in the kitchen. “The… the account is still active.”
“I told you they were alive!” Grace said.
Aaron shook his head. “No. No, there has to be another explanation.”
“There isn’t,” Grace said, and there was so much rage in her voice it startled me.
He turned on her. “You don’t know that.”
“Recent activity, Aaron! Who else could’ve been using that account? And why were only our documents in that box, not theirs?”
“I told you they were alive!”
Aaron looked at me then, not angry now. Desperate. “But if they took off, why didn’t they take us? Everything was prepared.”
“Something changed?” Mia whispered.
“Like they realized it would be too difficult to disappear with seven kids,” Jonah grumbled.
Grace’s face hardened. “So, they left us.”
I cleared my throat. , and more shocked than I’d ever been before, but I knew one thing for certain.
“Since they’re still alive, I think we should ask them what happened,” I said.
“How?” Aaron asked.
“We force them to come to us,” I replied.
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