Dad `.]d`y, Save Me: The* Reaper’s Se;,cret Daug;hter

Vivian bl)ed o)ut -after ; g=.ivin;,g birth. Trent/ dragged )her ( out the hosp*ital's   b[ ac*`k door and dumped he.#r by the\^ trash. Sh/$e di\],e`d at dawn—a ghost only her %d`aught=er [Annie,*# could see. Five y.-ears later!+!, Tr/?e\nt ;%\,!c!$\ laime_;d Annie as hi[]s` o$*%wn—to drain ;:her ma+_rrow for!; his stepson. In the .`grou -p home, -;five-year-ol #
d* Annie ]\%ripped free and ran to=;;, a( man. i-n a ]!whee\*lchair—Da$ `mian Callo
way, _[_the Reaper no one dared touch. S:#/he cl\ ung /to h
-!is leg an.
d screa.med: “Daddy, sa[` v e me!
” Da+
mian l@ !ost h` is %legs si@*: x year?#/]s ago. Doct+,o#rs sai- \ (d he could nev?
er fa,@ther a child. He though$t Vi`vian be-,#tr-;aye: 
d him. =]But when the forged DNA repo#rt shattered, when t#he conf ^)(ession_`/ re+cording played, when Annie hummed her mother's lull[aby in#] a. thunder\=storm—the m ;an who^%  hadn't w )al$,/[ked in six years sto!?+)od up, i=,nc!] h b/+-?y! i!nch, for] his dau, [-ght-
er. Tren)t rotte-d in ?,p_ rison. Damian;[ @ $(knel(:t[`[ at Vi+vian's ,; g(%rave[\ `, A !nnie-/ in his ar [!m(s: “All the love s\:he/] mis(_sed,  I:'ll give her tw;@ice over.”