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Chapter 13: The Man in the Photograph

Author: Eliora
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-09-24 06:51:36

I turned the photograph over again. The handwriting was unmistakably my grandfather's.

“He knows where your father is.”

For several seconds, nobody spoke. I looked at Harrison's younger face in the photograph, then at my father's. I had spent years believing my father was simply another painful part of my family's past. Now I was beginning to wonder if I had ever been told the truth about him.

"Where was this taken?" I asked.

Julian took the photograph from my hand. "Westbridge."

"And when?"

He
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