I Adopted Four Brothers and Sisters Who Were About to Be Torn Apart

She looked directly at me.

“You did exactly what they hoped for. Without ever reading this.”

My eyes burned.

While the system had been preparing to divide them into separate homes, their parents had literally written: Don’t separate our children.

Even before they died, they had tried to shield them from exactly that fate.

“Where’s the house?” I asked quietly.

She handed me the address.

It was across town.