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2024-10-29 19:42:56"For love, I'd do anything.For you, I'd do even more."
"She was already adopted."
Dario's forehead creased in confusion.
It didn't make sense. His Madie wasn't adopted, there wasn't any documents regarding whatever adoption that took place.
Standing up from his chair, he grabbed whatever Neil and Adon had in their hands and scanned through it. It was a single-page document that stated, indeed, that 'Madeline' has been adopted.
By who or when, it didn't say.
"What the fuck?" he spoke, his voice low and raspy. The two other men knew that he was now pissed.
"How the fuck did we not know that? And who the hell adopted Madie secretly?" he asked, his burning eyes trained on Adon, since he was in charge of investigating the orphanage and everyone in it.
"That's the thing. I went through everything there could possibly in the orphanage, every nook and cranny, but there wasn't an
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