Chapter 4 - The Vintage Photograph
Rachel walked over to the living room coffee table and picked up the vintage framed photograph she had found in the attic.
It was dated October 1990—four years before Grant was born—showing a young, elegant Evelyn Bennett smiling beside a charismatic fertility specialist.
The doctor’s name tag was clearly visible in the grainy photograph: Dr. Marcus Vance.
The same Dr. Vance who had directed the fertility clinic where Rachel and Grant had undergone IVF treatments five years ago.
“Evelyn didn't just visit Dr. Vance’s clinic for routine checkups back then,” Rachel stated, holding the photo up in front of Grant’s face.
“She was his patient long before she married Richard Bennett.”
“And Dr. Vance wasn't just a family friend... he was the biological father of your husband, and now, through a sick medical loop, he engineered Maddie’s conception as well.”
Grant looked up from the floor, his eyes wide and unhinged.
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“Dr. Vance retired twenty years ago,” Grant whispered hoarsely.
“Or so my mother told me.”
