Chapter 2: The Man Who Knew Everything
⬇️ **PART 2** ⬇️
Eleanor recovered first.
She came down those stairs like a woman going to war — heels sharp against the marble, jaw locked, eyes fixed on me like I was something she intended to remove.
"You have no right to be here," she said, low enough that only I could hear.
"Take those children and leave before I have you escorted off this property."
I didn't move.
"Those children," I said calmly, "have every right to be here.
More right than anyone else on these grounds."
Liam reached up and took my hand.
Noah and Caleb stood close behind me, quiet, watching her with those gray eyes — Ethan's eyes — without blinking.
Eleanor's face went the color of ash.
Then a voice cut through the silence from across the garden.
"What is going on out here?"
Ethan.
He was still in his wedding suit, champagne in hand, moving through the frozen crowd toward the gate.
His best man was two steps behind him.
He saw me first.
Then he looked down.
And everything in him stopped.
His champagne glass tilted slowly in his hand.
His mouth opened but nothing came out.
Because he already knew.
One look at those three faces and he already knew exactly what he was seeing.
Behind him, through the tall chapel doors, I could see Caroline Hastings in her wedding gown — watching.
And beside her stood a man I had never expected to see at this wedding.
A man who knew exactly why I had disappeared five years ago.
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What that man knew — and what Ethan did next — changes everything.
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