Berlin stared at the man lying in the hospital bed. Mr. Mike Petan was tall and strong-looking, even while unconscious. She'd heard he was an orphan—the only survivor of his family after a terrible accident years ago with his brother. Berlin understood that kind of pain. She'd lost people too.
But what puzzled her was this: Mike had supposedly helped Karlos during the crash.
"Or was it a lie?…. "
Berlin's emotions right now are hard to describe, and to be honest, her outside appearance was the exact mirror of her current state of mind. Her heart had been burrowing under layers and layers of protection for so long that she found it hard to reveal these emotions again. The instant that Berlin heard Karlos reveal a truth about her mother not being hers, she felt nothing. Then slowly…. it hit her.
