Chapter 2: The Secret Their Family Buried
Chapter 2: The Secret Their Family Buried
The sisters embraced as guests watched in stunned silence.
Even the orchestra had stopped playing.
Sophia's father slowly stood from the front table.
His face had turned completely white.
"Dad..."
Sophia looked at him through tears.
"You knew."
The elderly billionaire lowered his head.
"I thought she was gone forever."
Lily looked between them.
"What is happening?"
The old man walked toward her with trembling legs.
"When you were three years old..."
"There was a terrible house fire."
"The authorities believed you had died."
He could barely continue.
"But someone rescued you before firefighters arrived."
"A woman who had no children."
"She was killed in a car accident years later."
Lily remembered fragments.
A warm voice.
A silver locket.
A promise.
The family lawyer quietly added,
"By the time we discovered there had been a mistake..."
"...every official record had been lost."
Sophia looked at her father.
"So you stopped searching?"
The old man's eyes filled with regret.
"I searched for years."
"But eventually..."
"I believed hope was hurting everyone more than the truth."
Lily whispered,
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"So I grew up believing nobody wanted me."
The sentence broke every heart in the room.
