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Chapter 23 : Denver Ricardo
Author: Charmaine Cloete
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The ease and simplicity they all managed to tell him a story; the words sound like a very familiar scenario to him. He briefly stood looking at the people who now in reality was his family.

Denver senior and Daniel, closed the studio door. He noticed his mom; a woman he doesn't know.

“Sit down son,”

“I want to know what’s going on here.” Denver demanded.

“I am aware of that Danny. There really was no need to run away.”

“I just needed to think. Once in the ocean, I realized I should come back, father. Why did you change my DNA?”

“I am going to let you into my past, it will feel like your reality. Just don’t interrupt my flow. I accepted my past, don’t alter it.”

Daniel grab hold of his son’s hand. The current of electricity between them was explosively strong…it further increase when Cathy took hold of the other hand. “We are a family.” She said seriously.

Denver felt him being pulled into a whirlpool. The fragmented images merging within him but knowing it wasn't his. It truly
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