I froze like a deer in headlights, my brain screaming for a lie, but my mouth wouldn’t move. I couldn't summon the courage to answer his question, not while those storm-gray eyes were boring into me, searching for the truth I had buried five years ago. The air in the ballroom felt like it was turning to lead. I couldn't breathe, and my head felt light, a dangerous buzzing sound starting in the back of my skull.“Autumn. Whose. Child. Is. That?” Eric asked again, enunciating each word with a lethal precision.He stepped closer, invading my air space until the scent of his expensive cologne—sandalwood and cold rain—completely surrounded me. It was an intoxicating scent, one that used to make me feel safe, but now it felt like a trap. The room felt like it was closing in, the golden walls of the Kingston estate becoming the bars of a cage.“Uncle, what are you talking about?” Chloe piped up, her voice sounding thin and confused against the heavy silence Eric had created. “Autumn has a ch
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