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"I'd like to cut this short," my attorney, Scott Wilson, intervened on my behalf. "If you're about to tell Jaysen that his family doesn't want anything to do with him, he's prepared himself for that. There's no need for a bunch of useless questions and answers beforehand. He's still grieving for his mother, so I hope you understand."
"Jaysen?" The older woman spoke now, so I turned toward her. "Do you know what the J.L. stands for in J.L. Morrison? The J is for Jaysen, spelled exactly like your name. We didn't know you existed until a few weeks ago, when the letter came to your father. He was out of the country on business, so his wife brought it to us, thinking it was a scam. We asked Lee about it, and he finally admitted that he was married to your mother—for two years. If we'd known, you wouldn't have grown up without any family except your mother."
"Huh?" I blinked at her, not understanding anything and feeling as if the world had tilted beneath my feet.
Then, the room turned black and I fell.
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Jay Morrison grew up in a single parent home, since his parents divorced when he was two and his father hadn't visited or contacted him since. His Korean grandparents disowned Jay and his mother, because she'd married an American and Jay was only half-Korean.
He was never made aware of his American grandparents, so he assumed they were deceased.
Born a genius, Jay was more than adept at designing new tech, including a very popular social networking platform when he was eleven years old. With such an extremely high IQ, Jay was admitted to college at age fourteen—and graduated with a Ph.D. at seventeen.
After his mother's death, Jay had no idea that being discovered and accepted by his American grandparents would cause problems within the family—or that attempts on his life had already begun when he was in grade school.
It was probably a very good thing that he'd never been exactly human…
Genre: Science Fiction
"Jaysen?" The older woman spoke now, so I turned toward her. "Do you know what the J.L. stands for in J.L. Morrison? The J is for Jaysen, spelled exactly like your name. We didn't know you existed until a few weeks ago, when the letter came to your father. He was out of the country on business, so his wife brought it to us, thinking it was a scam. We asked Lee about it, and he finally admitted that he was married to your mother—for two years. If we'd known, you wouldn't have grown up without any family except your mother."
"Huh?" I blinked at her, not understanding anything and feeling as if the world had tilted beneath my feet.
Then, the room turned black and I fell.
___________________________
Jay Morrison grew up in a single parent home, since his parents divorced when he was two and his father hadn't visited or contacted him since. His Korean grandparents disowned Jay and his mother, because she'd married an American and Jay was only half-Korean.
He was never made aware of his American grandparents, so he assumed they were deceased.
Born a genius, Jay was more than adept at designing new tech, including a very popular social networking platform when he was eleven years old. With such an extremely high IQ, Jay was admitted to college at age fourteen—and graduated with a Ph.D. at seventeen.
After his mother's death, Jay had no idea that being discovered and accepted by his American grandparents would cause problems within the family—or that attempts on his life had already begun when he was in grade school.
It was probably a very good thing that he'd never been exactly human…
Genre: Science Fiction
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