INICIAR SESIÓNAMARA'S POVI had spent my entire life believing I was an only child until Eleanor gave me Lillian.Now a stranger was standing outside our building, claiming to be Adrian Alexander, the brother Damien had spent years searching for.But the photograph on my phone told a different story.Adrian was a woman.And she was looking directly at the camera as though she knew I would eventually find her.“Show me that picture again,” Damien demanded.I handed him my phone.He stared at the image, his expression changing with every passing second.“That cannot be Adrian.”Daniel moved closer.“Look at the eyes.”Damien's jaw tightened.“I know what my brother looked like.”“And I know what Victor did to children he wanted to erase,” Daniel replied.Catherine stepped away from the window.“Someone is outside.”Marcus immediately drew his weapon.“Everybody move away from the glass.”I looked towards the entrance.A woman stood beneath the security light. She wore a dark coat, and her hair fell l
AMARA’S POV“She carried out your sister.”Dr. Hayes's words struck me harder than any slap.I stared at him, waiting for him to explain, but he only looked towards the register as though the pages contained something he was afraid to say aloud.“My sister?” I repeated. “I don't have another sister.”Lillian stepped closer.“You have me.”“I know, but—”“You mean another sister?” she interrupted.Hayes nodded.“Eleanor gave birth to two girls. One was taken from the clinic before the records were altered. The other remained behind.”Daniel gripped the edge of the desk.“That's not what the original report said.”“Because the original report was incomplete,” Hayes replied. “Victor ordered me to change the entries. I was told that one child had to disappear.”Damien stepped forward.“Which child?”Hayes looked at me.“The one Eleanor carried out.”My throat tightened.“Where is she?”“I don't know.”“Stop saying that!” I shouted. “You expect me to believe you helped change our identitie
AMARA’S POV“Because the woman he spent six years trying to erase had left behind proof that could destroy him.”Daniel's words echoed through the chapel courtyard.Victor's expression had changed. His confidence was slipping, and for the first time, I saw something unfamiliar in his eyes.Fear.I stared at the birth certificate in Daniel's hand.Alexandra Alexander.That was the name written on the document. Not Amara Williams. Not the name Eleanor had given me. A name belonging to a child who, according to Dr. Hayes, had died before her first birthday.“Tell me what this means,” I demanded.Daniel studied the document again.“This certificate was created after the original hospital record was altered. Look at the registration date.”I leaned closer.The certificate had been registered three months after my supposed birth.“That doesn't make sense.”“No,” Daniel replied. “It doesn't.”Victor recovered his composure.“Daniel, you have spent years hiding behind another man's identity.
AMARA’S POVThe door locked behind us, and Victor's voice continued echoing through the hidden chamber.“Because the child you have been protecting all this time is not the daughter Evelyn wanted to save.”I stared at the dead monitor.“What does he mean?”Damien didn't answer.His face had become frighteningly still, his eyes fixed on the screen as though he could force his father to reappear.“Damien?” I whispered.He turned towards me.“Whatever Victor says, don't believe him until we have proof.”“Then tell me why he mentioned your mother exchanging the babies.”“I don't know.”Daniel stepped between us.“Your father is trying to divide us. That's what he has always done.”Catherine hurried towards the door and pulled its handle.“It's locked.”Marcus's voice crackled through Damien's communication device.“Sir, can you hear me?”Damien pressed the receiver.“Marcus, we're trapped beneath the chapel. Find another entrance.”“I'm trying. The main security system has been overridden
AMARA’S POVMy mother was alive.After six years of believing I had lost her, I was finally looking at her face again. Yet the photograph in Damien's hand brought no comfort.Victor Alexander stood beside her.The man who had destroyed our family was standing close enough to touch her.And someone was demanding that I walk into his trap.“I'm going,” I said.Damien immediately shook his head. “Absolutely not.”“That's my mother.”“And that's Victor. You know what he's capable of.”“I know exactly what he's capable of. That's why I cannot sit here while he keeps using my family against me.”Damien placed the photograph on the table.“You think I don't understand? My mother disappeared. My brother was erased. My entire childhood was built on secrets. But walking into a place Victor controls without a plan will only give him another opportunity to hurt you.”Daniel leaned against the wall, his injured shoulder supported by a bandage.“The message specifically says to come without me.”I
AMARA’S POVThe woman standing before me had just admitted that she was not the Margaret Williams we had been searching for.And somehow, that was not the most terrifying part.“The real Margaret is your mother?” I asked.She nodded, her eyes fixed on the photograph in Damien’s hand.“Then who are you?”For a moment, she looked as though she wanted to run. Marcus noticed it too and moved towards the vehicle, blocking her escape.“My name is Catherine Williams,” she finally answered. “I used my mother's identity because it was the only way to get close enough to you.”Daniel raised his weapon.“You expect us to believe that?”“No,” Catherine replied. “I expect you to verify everything I say.”Damien stepped between us.“You have one opportunity to explain why you deceived us.”Catherine swallowed.“My mother was the nurse who carried Amara out of this clinic. She worked here under a different name because Victor Alexander had arranged for her employment. When she discovered what he int







