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Chapter 77 — What the Fathers Left Behind
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You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 77 — What the Fathers Left Behind
The penthouse was quiet by the time they got back, the letter tucked safely into the inside pocket of Sebastian's jacket, as though keeping it close to his own chest might somehow keep it close to hers too.Zara sat on the edge of the bed, still in her coat, staring at nothing in particular."You've gone very still," Sebastian said, standing in the doorway."I keep thinking about the way she wrote it." Zara looked up at him. "Like she'd rehearsed it for years and still couldn't quite finish saying it."He crossed the room and sat beside her, close enough that his shoulder pressed against hers. "You don't have to make sense of all of it tonight.""I know." She let out a breath. "I just keep wondering what she found. In that house."Sebastian was quiet for a long moment. "So do I."Something in his voice made her turn to look at him properly. "You're thinking about your father.""I can't stop thinking about him." His jaw tightened. "He signed that document eleven years ago. I was alread
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Hawthorne Co. looked exactly as it always did from the outside, glass and steel catching the grey London morning, the flag above the entrance barely stirring in the wind. Zara had half expected the building to look different somehow, after everything. It didn't. Only she did.Nathan was waiting in the small meeting room on the executive floor when they arrived, the blinds drawn, a cup of untouched tea gone cold on the table in front of him. Daniel sat across from him, a security officer stationed by the door, the bruising beneath his eye gone a duller yellow green overnight.Sebastian didn't sit. "You said this wasn't something for the phone.""It isn't." Nathan glanced at Daniel. "Tell them what you told me."Daniel looked at Zara first, something apologetic still sitting behind his eyes. "When I was going through Blackridge's old records, I found something that had nothing to do with the company at all. A personal file. Your mother's name was on it."Zara's chest tightened. "What ki
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The envelope stayed on the floor between them.For a few seconds nobody touched it.Nathan finally crouched down and picked it up, turning it over carefully before opening it. No name on the front, no address, nothing that hinted where it had come from.He pulled out a thin stack of photographs and a folded document.Zara watched his expression change as he went through them."What is it?" Sebastian asked.Nathan didn't answer right away. He handed the first photograph over instead.Zara leaned closer to look. It was an old photo of a little girl standing beside a woman outside a large country house, the girl no older than four.She stared at it.She knew the woman.Her mother.Her breath caught. "I've seen this."Sebastian looked at her. "Where?""My mom had it."Nathan handed her another photograph, the same house from a different angle. A man stood near the entrance, younger than the Adrian they'd just met, but unmistakably him.Her fingers tightened around the edges of it. "I don'
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Zara could not look away from him.For a moment the storage facility seemed to shrink around them. The dim light overhead, the cold concrete beneath her feet, Daniel standing several yards away with blood on his face, Nathan watching the corridor with one hand ready at his side. None of it mattered as much as the man standing in front of her.He looked exactly as she remembered.The same scar cutting through his left eyebrow. The same unsettling calm. The same eyes that had watched her from the doorway that night as though he'd known her long before she'd ever known him.Sebastian moved slightly in front of her.The man's gaze shifted to him at last. "You always do that."Sebastian's expression stayed cold. "Do what?""Stand between her and everything you don't understand."Zara felt his fingers tighten around hers."That's because I don't trust people who appear out of nowhere and expect me to believe they're protecting her."A faint smile touched the man's mouth. "I never said I was
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