Gemotions

"Well, that's that," she murmured, closing the file. The legal documents detailed her father’s forgotten life, the second family he’d kept a secret. A half-brother. A chuckle escaped her, followed by a sigh of pure ease. She rose from her desk, the tension that had been clinging to her shoulders dissipating. She went to the window and took a long look at the city she loved. The evening was drawing in, and the lights of the buildings were just beginning to twinkle. She felt a lightness, a sense of rightness in this new discovery.