Accidental.

53.

Karen sat at Doctor Rivera's office fidgeting with her fingers nervously as they kept talking about her week

Their sessions dialed down from three days a week, to two days and now they were on one.

"Uh... there's something else." Karen said to her ,

Dr Rivera pushed her glasses back concentrating on Karen.

"I think... I think my daughter is alive." Karen said to her.

Dr Rivera's eyes widened in surprise as she waited for Karen to tell her more.

"We were doing the normal care package routine with the church ladies, Dorinda and I paired together and her phone was taken from her in attempt to steal it... well they did "

"Then this little girl brought the phone back to us and I saw her birthmark on her right arm, it looked exactly like the one my daughter had." Karen said to her.

"Well Karen you know that birthmarks can be the same for a lot of people... do you think you're thinking about it this much with the hopes of her being your daughter?" Dr Rivera asked her.

"Of course I'm hopeful that she is , which mother wouldn't be? What if it is her? I've met her before,  she was scared... she lives in an unsafe environment I have to do something." Karen said to her 

"What are you going to do Karen? Are you going to go to her and ask her who her mother is? Do you even know how old she is?" Dr River asked .

Karen didn't know how to respond to her, she just fiddled with her hands because really she didn't know what she was going to do

"You're family doesn't even know that you have a baby outside your marriage... you won't tell anyone. " Dr Rivera reminded her.

"I know that, it's just... I'll figure it out okay? I'll see what I will do about it." Karen said to her .

Once Karen was out of therapy she decided to drive to the neighborhood where she saw Mikhaila once again, soon the kids would be back to school and Karen thought that maybe she would catch her coming back from school.

As Karen sat in her car, almost the same spot that the van was at she saw Mikhaila and her brother Malachy walking with their backpacks... hand in hand.

She smiled as she looked at the bond between the two, she didn't seem like the little scared girl... she was laughing and in her brother's arm.

Another thought came into her mind... Lisa.

She wanted to immediately get out of the car to go to them, what if Malachy was Lisa's son... the son she cried about seeing that she went back to Omario?

It all made sense to her, but Karen didn't want to scare them off.

She started her car after they disappeared and she decided to drive back home.

"Hello?" Karen answered her phone after it rang for a while .

"Hey sis." Karen heard over the phone.

"Hey Tasha, what's up? Your little ass never calls." Karen joked .

"Why you and my momma always say that? I do call " Tasha said.

"Don't be lying Tasha you know you don't call nobody , what do you want girl I'm driving" Kare said to her

After Karen left the house the day that she gave Tia the money, she felt bad over how she left Tasha and she went back two weeks after to talk to her.

She was able to visit them when she could and her kids loved and knew them as their aunt and uncle.