Chapter 2: What Was Waiting in the Bottom Drawer
Part 2 ⬇️
I set Mei down at the top of the stairs and told her to wait.
My mother was already inside by the time I reached Serena's room.
She was standing near the dresser, not touching anything, just looking.
"I wasn't snooping," she said.
"The door was open when I came in from the garden last week.
I saw it by accident.
I didn't know what to do with it."
She pointed to the bottom drawer.
Inside was a folder.
Legal paper.
I recognized the letterhead — it was my own company's law firm.
I opened it.
It was a petition for guardianship transfer.
Mei's name was on it.
So was Victor's.
Serena had been working with Victor to have Mei's legal guardianship moved — away from me — in the event of a divorce.
The filing date was four months ago.
My hands were steady.
I don't know how.
"There's more," my mother said quietly.
She reached past me and turned the folder over.
Behind the legal papers was a photograph.
Serena and Victor.
Not at a family dinner.
Not at a casual gathering.
I recognized the hotel.
I had stayed there myself — in Singapore — two weeks before.
I heard Serena's heels on the stairs.
"Marcus." Her voice was controlled again.
Calm.
"Whatever your mother told you, let me explain—"
I turned around and held up the photograph.
She stopped.
And for the first time in five years, Serena had nothing to say.
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What Marcus found next made his lawyer go silent.
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