Chapter 15 — Sophia Finally Comes Home
# The Girl Who Ran Into the Mafia
## Chapter 15 — Sophia Finally Comes Home
As dawn broke over Blackwood Forest, Sophia stepped outside the cabin.
Grace ran across the clearing without hesitation.
"Mom!"
Sophia dropped to her knees.
Mother and daughter embraced tightly, both crying too hard to speak.
For nearly a year they had dreamed of this moment.
Neither believed it would ever come.
Damian stood several feet away, giving them time.
Grace finally looked back at him.
She smiled through her tears.
"Thank you..."
"...for believing me."
Damian walked closer.
Sophia slowly stood.
For a long moment...
Neither of them moved.
Twenty-one years of loss.
Questions.
Regret.
Love.
All stood silently between them.
Finally Sophia whispered,
"I'm sorry."
Damian gently shook his head.
"You came home."
"That's enough."
He carefully placed the silver locket back around her neck.
"It kept its promise."
Sophia looked down at the tiny photograph inside.
Then at Grace.
Then at Damian.
For the first time in more than two decades...
The three people in that photograph finally stood together again.
But none of them yet realized...
The hardest truth still remained.
Grace deserved to know who her real father truly was.
