Even though she could feel the sunlight reflecting on her face, Carmen refused to open her eyes, and every time she thought about the DNA result, her arms hugged onto the pillow while she squeezed her eyelids.

“Are you awake?” Mrs. Smith called out as she knocked on her daughter's bedroom door.

After knocking a few times, she stopped and patiently waited for a response from Carmen. 

But when she got none, she knocked again and said, “Do you know that it's one o'clock already? How long do you plan to stay in your room? Come out, Dax is waiting for you downstairs with a package.”

Those words forced Carmen...