If You Want Love

Raegan di Forza has been through a lot in her eleven years of life.
Her father left when she was seven, after her little brother was born, saying he didn't want a "defected child" because her little brother was born with autism.
Her older brother, only thirteen at the time, had run away, because their father rejected him, and Raegan, for that matter, because "if one's a defect, all the rest are too."
Her mom is currently on life support at the hospital, after a tragic car accident when Raegan was just ten years old.
Raegan's secretly living in the run down apartment her mother has, and has lied about her age, saying she's fifteen years old so she can work a job for a small, family-owned craft store, just for money to feed her and her little brother, and pay for her little brother's antipsychotic medication.
They haven't had new clothes in a year, and her little brother has had a growth spurt since he was a three year old, so they're both having to wear hand-me-downs from their older brother.
What will happen when everything comes crashing down and the only people willing and able to take her and her brother in are a woman she met by accident and the woman's husband?

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