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Chapter 17 The Recording My Father Hid
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2026-09-22 03:59:50
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The gunshot shattered the night.For one terrible second, nobody moved.Then Adrian grabbed me and pulled me against his chest, turning his body between mine and the darkness.“Get down!”I barely had time to obey before another shot struck the wooden railing beside us.Clara screamed.Reed was already moving.He pushed Clara behind the car and disappeared toward the trees, while Adrian dragged me toward the old house.“Stay behind me.”“Adrian—”“Evelyn, please.”The word stopped me.He almost never said please.We reached the side of the house just as another shot cracked through the trees. Adrian pressed his back against the wall and looked toward Reed's position.“Reed?”Nothing.My heart hammered.“Where is he?”“He'll signal.”As if summoned by the words, Reed's voice came through the earpiece.“Shooter moved east. I didn't get a clear look.”Adrian's expression hardened.“Keep him away from the house.”“Already trying.”Victoria remained standing near the front steps.She hadn'
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The drive to the lake felt longer than it ever had before.I had spent sixteen years avoiding that place without even knowing why. Now I understood that my fear had not come from some simple childhood nightmare. My body remembered things my mind had learned to bury, and every mile we drove seemed to strip away another layer of the lie I had lived inside for so long.Adrian kept both hands on the steering wheel, his eyes fixed on the road, but I could feel the tension running through his entire body. We had barely spoken since leaving the mansion. The photograph lay on my lap inside the transparent evidence bag Reed had given us, and I could not stop staring at the man standing behind my mother.“Are you really saying you don't know who he is?” I finally asked.Adrian kept his eyes on the road.“I know who he is now.”“That isn't what I asked.”He sighed.“I didn't know he was in that photograph.”“But you know him.”“Yes.”I turned toward him.“Who is he?”Adrian took several seconds
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I couldn't breathe.My father's voice continued playing from Adrian's phone, distorted by years of damage but still unmistakably his.“Victoria didn't push our daughter into the lake.”My fingers tightened around the edge of the desk.“She gave the order.”The recording crackled, and then everything went silent.I stared at the phone as if staring hard enough could make my father speak again.My mother had given the order.Not to scare me.Not to punish me.To kill me.“No,” I whispered.Adrian reached for me, but I stepped away.“No.”“Evelyn…”“You knew.”He stopped.I looked at him, and the hurt that had been building inside me finally broke through.“You knew this?”“I suspected Victoria was involved.”“That isn't what I asked.”He said nothing.My chest tightened.“You knew she gave the order?”“Not until tonight.”I searched his face for a lie.There wasn't one.But there were secrets.There were always secrets.I picked up the memory card.“How long have you had this?”“Sixteen
I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 17 The Recording My Father Hid
My father's voice came through the phone again, and every part of me froze.“If Evelyn is hearing this…”The recording crackled, followed by several seconds of static.I gripped the edge of Adrian's desk as if I needed something solid to keep me standing. After everything I had learned that night, I thought there was nothing left that could shock me, but hearing my father's voice after sixteen years was different. It felt as though the past had reached through the darkness and grabbed me by the throat.Adrian stood beside me, watching my face.Then my father's voice returned.“Victoria didn't push our daughter into the lake.”My heart stopped.Adrian's eyes hardened.The recording continued.“She gave the order.”The room went silent.I stared at the phone.“No.”Adrian reached for my hand.I pulled away.“No.”“Evelyn…”“My mother didn't do that.”The words came out automatically, even though some part of me already knew they were true.I had seen Victoria standing beside the lake.I
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For a moment, I couldn't understand Clara's words.You.The word seemed to echo inside my head while bullets tore through the mansion around us. Adrian's arm remained wrapped around me, shielding my body with his as another shot struck the wall above the sofa.“Evelyn, stay down.”I barely heard him.My father had been murdered. Clara had disappeared. Marcus had been hiding something dangerous. Nathaniel Cross had pushed me into the lake.But now I was learning that none of it had started with my father.It had started with me.“Why?” I whispered.Clara's eyes filled with tears.“Because of what you saw.”I stared at her.“I was eight.”“You saw something that night, Evelyn. Something your father knew you remembered.”Another gunshot exploded through the room.Adrian pulled me closer.“Clara, we need to move.”“There’s another exit,” she said. “Behind the library.”Reed appeared from the corridor, his weapon raised.“Three men entered through the east side. I can hold them off, but we
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Clara Bennett stood in the doorway of Blackwood mansion, soaked from the rain, trembling so badly that she had to grip the doorframe to keep herself upright.For several seconds, nobody moved.I stared at her face, trying to connect it to the broken pieces of memory that had been haunting me since the lake. The woman standing before me looked older than the person I remembered, her dark hair streaked with gray and her face thinner, but there was something painfully familiar about her eyes.I had seen those eyes before.Not in a photograph.In a memory.“You know me,” Clara whispered.My heart began pounding.“I think I do.”Her gaze shifted past me and landed on Adrian.Whatever little color remained in her face disappeared.“You married him?”The question was so strange that I almost laughed, except there was nothing funny about the fear in her expression.“Yes,” I said slowly. “Why?”Clara looked at Adrian as if she had just walked into a trap.“You shouldn't have.”Adrian moved clo
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