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They explain they can't take a sister and a brother. They're lying, though. She sees it in their eyes. She's only seven, but she knows stuff.
She balls her fists. She doesn't want to cry, watching another white couple drive away from the orphanage. And she'd never go nowhere without Charles. It doesn't matter she can taste what they have for breakfast, feel the car seats, see the house with a gate they must live in.
"Try to have patience, Alonna," Miz Edmond says. "One day, you'll have a daddy again. And your new daddy will be just as nice."