Chapter 38

Rena

"Well, the thing is, the investigator thought finding your dad would be a lot harder since he isn't exactly a citizen, but to be sure, he decided to check to confirm if your dad's information would be registered, and he found out that your dad has been registered in the last eight years and he acquired his citizenship when he married his current wife eight years ago," he explains, and my heart drops to the lowest pit of my stomach.

"My dad has been married to someone else for eight years. How is that even possible? He was with us eight years ago, and Mom was still alive, so he was still married to her. So why would he marry someone else when he is, in fact, a married man? That doesn't make any sense, Corey," I retorted sharply, not understanding how anything he just said made any sense at all.

Listen, Rena, I know it's hard to make sense of it, but your parents weren't legally married in the United States because th