Chloe looked up, her eyes burning with a fierce, unbreakable light. “I came to you for protection, Dad. I came to my parents because I was terrified, pregnant, and mourning the love of my life. And instead of looking at your daughter and seeing a girl in danger, you saw a liability. You thought my pregnancy would draw attention back to Ethan. You thought the company would investigate our family. So you used the excuse of ‘nameless shame’ to throw me out into the street, hoping I would disappear just like he did.”
Beatrice turned to Thomas, her eyes wide with unadulterated revulsion. The man she had shared a bed with for forty years suddenly looked like a monster. “You knew,” she whispered, her voice trembling. “You knew why she couldn’t speak. You knew she was in danger, and you cast her out to save your own skin.”
“Beatrice, please—” Thomas begged, reaching out a trembling hand.
“Don’t touch me!” Beatrice shrieked, recoiling as if his skin were toxic. She fell to her knees, weeping uncontrollably on the carpet. “Ten years… I spent ten years wondering what I did wrong as a mother. I spent ten years watching the door, praying my baby girl would come home. And it was you. It was you the entire time.”
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