A waitress carrying champagne through a luxury ballroom suddenly made a powerful woman stop dead in her tracks
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Chapter 3: The Hidden Past
Eliza’s world shattered.
“That’s impossible,” she said. “My mother raised me. I remember her.”
Veronica turned away, struggling to breathe.
“You remember someone. But not the truth.”
She revealed the secret.
Thirty years ago, Marion Calder was involved in a scandal that nearly destroyed the Hale family—a scandal that was erased completely.
Marion disappeared overnight.
Declared dead.
But before she vanished, she had stolen something.
Not money.
Not jewels.
A child.
Eliza’s chest tightened.
“No…”
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Veronica looked at her with haunted eyes.
“You were never meant to exist in the life you know.”
