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Chapter 33: The Empty Grave

作者: Victor
last update publish date: 2026-11-02 17:34:20

THE GRAVE IS EMPTY.

I read the sentence several times, hoping I had misunderstood it.

But the words remained unchanged.

“Whose grave?” I asked.

Adrian looked uncomfortable.

“Your mother's.”

I turned towards him.

“Which mother? The woman Eleanor claimed gave birth to us, or the woman Margaret says was our biological mother?”

“Your biological mother.”

I looked down at the photograph in my hand.

Celeste Cross.

The woman whose name had appeared in a document, whose face had appeared in an old photo
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