Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 89493 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 447(@200wpm)___ 358(@250wpm)___ 298(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 89493 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 447(@200wpm)___ 358(@250wpm)___ 298(@300wpm)
I held my breath as Birdie skimmed through the pages and studied what looked like a bunch of numbers to me. But when she picked it up, something fell out. An old, folded up section of a newspaper that was dry and brittle. Birdie’s eyebrows scrunched together as she began to unfold it, and the room was dead silent while we all waited to see what it was. I wasn’t prepared for the sound that escaped Birdie’s lips before her eyes darted to me.
“What’s wrong?” I reached out to her.
She gingerly set the clipping down on the table beside her, smoothing it out with her fingers before she slid it toward me. “It’s you.”
My eyes drifted over the article, noting the scrawls of hearts and flowers around the margins of the paper. But it was the photograph in the middle that caught my attention. It was, in fact, me. And beside that photo was a small blip in the paper regarding my release from prison. It was almost too difficult to believe, but it was there.
“I felt you before I ever knew you,” Birdie murmured.
“Read the message.” Gypsy offered her sister a watery smile. “You wrote it.”
Birdie glanced at the corresponding numbers in the journal and looked up at me with an expression I would never forget.
“What does it say?”
She took my hand in hers and squeezed. “Someday, everything will be perfect.”
THE END