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Chapter 202: The Information

Auteur: Lois
last update Date de publication: 2026-05-26 07:26:57

Caleb POV

He called me two hours later."I have pieces," he said. "Not the whole picture."

"Tell me the pieces."

"Margaret's maiden name was Voss," the investigator said. "She had a younger sister named Elaine, who was quieter and artistic. Elaine went to Geneva on a four-month arts fellowship twenty-nine years ago. Six months after she came back, she gave birth to a baby girl. The father was listed as unknown."

I wrote this down without speaking.

"The child's name on that original registra
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