“No.”
“What do you mean, no?”
“She wasn’t supposed to find that.”
That was when I understood the most important thing.
Grandpa hadn’t just been hiding some old family secret.
He knew what was on that birth certificate.
“Grandpa… who is Anna’s father?”
He said nothing.
My phone vibrated again.
Susan’s final message.
Don’t ask George who Anna’s father is. Ask him why Linda’s name is listed there as the mother.Track Pregnancy
My hands went cold.
I looked at Grandpa.
He sat down in the chair.
And for the first time in my life, I watched him cry.
“Emily,” he said, “your mother has hidden a lot from you. But this one… even she doesn’t know the whole truth.”
And at that exact moment, someone knocked on the front door.
