Chapter 5 - Vanessa’s Mother Knew Margaret
Vanessa’s late mother, Evelyn Cole, had once worked as a private
maternity nurse.
Her patient had been Margaret Sterling.
The week Daniel was born, Evelyn filed a hospital incident report
involving incorrectly assigned infant identification bracelets during an
emergency evacuation.
Emma stared at the document.
“What happened?”
Nobody knew from the report alone.
But after Daniel’s birth, Margaret began sending Evelyn annual payments.
They continued for eighteen years.
Daniel had never heard about them.
Then the anonymous sender identified herself.
Sophie Cole.
Vanessa’s older half-sister.
Sophie said Vanessa had found Evelyn’s old letters after their mother
died.
Those letters convinced Vanessa the Sterling family had paid Evelyn to
bury a secret about Daniel’s birth.
Vanessa had approached Margaret deliberately.
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Margaret recognized exactly whose daughter she was.
And instead of sending Vanessa away, she brought her closer.
