Chapter 2: The Truth Hidden for Eight Years
Chapter 2: The Truth Hidden for Eight Years
"My wife never told me."
His voice remained calm.
Almost too calm.
Eight years earlier, he had been deployed overseas as part of an international humanitarian security mission.
Communication had been nearly impossible.
When he finally returned...
The woman he loved had disappeared.
Everyone claimed she had abandoned him.
Everyone lied.
The family lawyer slowly opened another envelope.
Inside were dozens of letters.
Every one of them addressed to the man in black.
None had ever been mailed.
His late wife had written to him every month after discovering she was pregnant.
Each letter ended the same way.
"Please come home. Your son asks about you every day."
But the letters had never left the mansion.
Someone had hidden every one of them.
The man looked toward the stepmother.
"You intercepted them."
She couldn't answer.
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Because it was true.
She had destroyed their family long before today.
