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“Sir, I found your son beside the dumpster outside your mansion,” a soaking wet little girl said as she handed over a crying baby wrapped in a black trash bag. The billionaire, declared sterile twelve years earlier, didn’t panic. He stared into the child’s eyes and asked, “Who sent you here to play this sick game?” The little girl pointed a trembling finger at the top of the grand staircase, whispering, “The lady who told us to throw him away.”

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a private, unvetted citizen.”

Panic, raw and jagged, ripped across Charlee’s face. She threw herself across the room, wrapping her thin, bruised arms around my leg. “Please! Please do not let them take him away!” she screamed, the sound tearing at the quiet elegance of my study. “He was freezing when I found him in the dark. I promised him I would never continue reading …

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