Until one day, everything changed.
I was eight years old when a family came looking to adopt a child. They didn’t want siblings. They wanted only one.
For years, no one had ever chosen two children together.
So they chose me.
And I was taken away—alone.
I still remember the last time I held Camille. She clung to me, crying as hard as she could, begging me not to leave. Through my own tears, I promised her something I didn’t know how to keep—