Ethan and Cecilia slowly walked toward Adrian.For a moment, nobody spoke. Years stood between them pain, mistakes, regrets.Then Ethan looked at Adrian.“I know this doesn’t erase everything.”Adrian nodded. “No.”Ethan glanced toward Hope. “But I want you to know… I never wanted to replace you.”Adrian met his eyes. For the first time, he believed him.“I know.”Cecilia stepped closer, her eyes filling with tears. “We lost so much time.”“Yes,” Adrian said.A painful silence settled.“But maybe,” Cecilia continued, “we stop losing time now.”Adrian looked at Elias and Hope his children, the reason he had survived, the reason he had kept searching. He nodded.“Yes.”Hope reached for Cecilia’s hand. Elias reached for Adrian’s. Ethan stood beside them. A family that had been broken.For days the world had watched the Blackwood case unfold: the kidnapping, the deception, the stolen identity, the six years of pain hidden behind lies. And finally, the verdict.Isabel Chen was found guilty
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