Chapter 2 - The Shocking Identity Of The Man In The Photograph
Edgar Vance stared down at the small, dog-eared Polaroid trembling in the six-year-old girl’s tiny hand.
The face captured in the faded ink was one Edgar had not laid eyes on in over a decade.
It was his younger brother, Thomas, who had supposedly died in a mysterious boating accident off the coast of Maine.
“Where did you get this?” Edgar demanded, his voice dropping an octave as cold dread gripped his chest.
Lily looked up with big, terrified eyes, shrinking back into the soft folds of Elena’s dark apron.
Elena swallowed hard, her throat burning as she stepped forward to shield the child once more.
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“Thomas was Lily’s father, Mr. Edgar,” Elena whispered, the confession tearing open old wounds.
Edgar staggered back half a step, the immaculate discipline of the Vance patriarch cracking down the middle.
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