Their best interest

She continued, making sure her voice didn’t waver, because the weight of this truth mattered. Together with the grandparents, she explained, they had come up with a careful plan. Every step of it had been thought through, always with the children’s best interests at heart. She needed the adoptive parents to understand that this wasn’t a rash idea. As she spoke, their eyes never left her, following every word intently.
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