you need to leave immediately.”
“Why?”
“Please, Emily. Just leave.”
Emily became impatient.
“The doctors found something wrong with our genetic results!”
Helen began crying.
Then she asked a question that made my blood run cold.
“Did they mention Daniel?”
Emily froze.
“How do you know that name?”
Her mother whispered,
“Because twenty-five years ago, we thought we’d buried that name forever.”
Then the call ended.
Emily immediately tried calling Helen again.
No answer.
Meanwhile, I kept thinking about those twenty-five years.
That was exactly how long Emily and I
