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Chapter 45: The Face Behind the Forgotten Memory
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2026-10-20 02:48:30
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I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 46: The Daughter Victoria Chose
For a moment, I couldn't decide which woman I wanted to confront first.Eleanor stood near the altar, her face drained of color, while Victoria remained in the doorway as though she had arrived at a private meeting she had every right to interrupt. The silver flower brooch on her pale coat caught the morning light, and the sight of it brought Amelia's recovered memory back with such force that I had to remind myself to breathe. My mother had been in the room where my uncle's daughter was kept. She had known Eleanor. She had known about the two girls, and now she was standing between me and the truth, asking me to put down the only evidence I had brought to discover it."No," I said.Victoria's eyebrows lifted. "Excuse me?""You heard me. I'm not putting anything down until I understand why you were in the room where Amelia was being held."For the first time since she entered, my mother looked genuinely unsettled. It lasted only a second, but I saw it before she recovered her usual co
I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 45: The Face Behind the Forgotten Memory
For several seconds, I couldn't bring myself to move.My mother had been in the room where Amelia was kept. Eleanor had taken Amelia away, a man in a red-striped coat had been waiting nearby, and Victoria had arrived after Eleanor left. Three people, three different roles, and one missing childhood that someone had spent years making sure Amelia couldn't remember. I wanted to call Victoria immediately and demand an explanation, but I knew what would happen. She would deny everything, accuse me of believing strangers over my own family, and somehow turn my questions into evidence that I was the one who couldn't be trusted.Adrian reached for the phone in my hand, then stopped when I pulled it closer to myself."Don't," I said."I wasn't going to take it from you.""Then don't look at me as if you're about to decide what I should do next."His expression tightened, but he nodded. "All right. What do you want to do?"The question caught me off guard because I had spent so much time fight
I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 44: The Woman Who Took Amelia
I read Daniel’s message three times before I could make myself believe I understood it.She says Eleanor Shaw was the woman who took her away.For several seconds, I sat on the edge of the bed with my phone in my hand, staring at the words while the rest of the room seemed to recede around me. Eleanor had spent years hiding from someone, had contacted me with information about my identity, and had insisted that I come to the chapel without Adrian. Now Amelia, a woman who had disappeared from her own family as a child, had recognized Eleanor as the person who took her away. The question was no longer whether Eleanor knew what had happened to us. It was whether she had been trying to save us, whether she had helped destroy our lives, or whether those two things had somehow become impossible to separate.I called Daniel immediately.He answered before the first ring had finished. "Evelyn?""What happened? You said Amelia remembered something about Eleanor. What exactly did she tell you?"
I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 43: The Daughter They Tried to Erase
“Call her back.”Adrian reached for my phone, but I pulled it against my chest before he could touch it. Eleanor Shaw had just told me that the girl Victoria lost and the girl she raised were never supposed to meet, and now that the call had ended, I couldn't stop hearing those words. I had spent my entire life believing I knew who I was, even when my family refused to explain why certain memories were missing or why my mother sometimes looked at me as though she were waiting for me to become someone else. Now I was expected to accept that the name on my birth certificate might be connected to a lie that had begun before I could even speak.“You heard what she said,” I told Adrian. “She wants to meet me, and she knows something about my identity.”“I heard her.”“Then call her back.”“She ended the call. We don't have a number to return it to.”“Your security team can trace it.”“If she used a disposable phone or routed the call through another device, they may not be able to identify
I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 42: The Signature That Changed Everything
“Tell me that isn't your signature.” I pushed the folder across the desk, but Adrian didn't reach for it. He stood staring at the authorization page as if the ink might rearrange itself into something less devastating if he refused to look away. I had seen him confront men who wanted his company, face threats against his life without blinking, and walk into rooms where everyone else was afraid to speak, but the sight of his own name beneath my mother's handwriting had stripped the certainty from his face. “Adrian.” My voice cracked despite my efforts to keep it steady. “Tell me.” He bent over the desk and examined the signature, his fingers hovering above the paper without touching it. “It looks like mine.” “That isn't what I asked.” “I know.” “Did you sign it?” “No.” The answer came quickly, but I had learned that speed meant very little when a man had spent sixteen years protecting a secret. I searched his face for the smallest indication that he was choosing his words carefu
I Married My Mother's Secret Lover Chapter 41: The Truth Between Us
“Evelyn, don't trust Adrian with the original results.”For one impossible second, I forgot how to breathe. I knew that voice better than I knew my own reflection, every soft syllable and carefully measured pause familiar from a lifetime of hearing my mother speak when she wanted to sound reasonable while hiding something unforgivable. I turned toward it in the darkness, reaching blindly for the person who had whispered in my ear, but my fingers touched only cold air. Somewhere across the boathouse, a chair scraped against the floor, followed by Gabriel swearing under his breath and Daniel calling my name.“Mother?” I whispered.A hand closed around my wrist.I jerked away so violently that my shoulder struck the wall, and a familiar voice immediately spoke beside me. “It's me. Evelyn, it's Adrian. Don't move until the lights come back.”I hated that the sound of his voice calmed me. I hated that, even after everything Ashford had revealed and everything Adrian had admitted to conceal
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