Roxy POV
David seemed to be a nice man. He was eighteen months older than I and had known about me since he was young. His mother could not handle both of us at the time; she was too young, vulnerable, and broke. As my pretended mother had been pregnant with another man's child and lost it, she was given me to raise as a substitute. What a joke. My father and mother both more or less ignored me all my life, and now I know why. I was an unwanted child by my father, a painful reminder of her loss by my mother, and a sad choice of handing me over due to her inability to raise my brother and me, and she regretted it all her life.
He had a good childhood. Our mother married a nice man, which I am happy to hear, but he passed away recently, and that changed both their lives. It was when she fo
