The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood
The photograph, the locket, the filings, the names, each piece fit with the next.
But the timing of it.
Sebastian had surfaced with a legitimate blood claim to the company's founding structure. The board was moving toward him. The leaked article had caused the stock to fall, and the episode had put me on the floor of my own study and kept me in bed for nearly two weeks.
And now, in the middle of all of it, this.
Charlotte, who had arrived in my life as a substitute bride and had become everything she’d become, turning out to be the unidentified beneficiary of a trust my father had spent years trying to locate.