Chapter 4 - Lily Repeats the Wrong Name
Security searched for Caroline.
Victoria took Lily into the nursery and sat beside her.
“Did Aunt Caroline say where Daddy was taking you?”
Lily nodded.
“To Grandma’s.”
Andrew frowned.
His mother, Margaret Blake, lived in Connecticut.
She was downstairs at the party.
Margaret was brought upstairs.
The moment Lily saw her, she shook her head.
“Not that Grandma.”
Everyone froze.
Victoria had only one living mother figure—her stepmother, Evelyn Shaw.
Evelyn lived in Boston.
She had not been invited.
Victoria’s biological mother, Claire, had died when Victoria was eleven.
“Which grandma?” Victoria asked.
Lily pointed toward a framed photograph on the shelf.
Claire.
Victoria’s breath caught.
“That’s Mommy’s mother, sweetheart. She’s gone.”
Lily whispered:
“No. Aunt Caroline said she’s alive.”
Andrew looked stunned.
Victoria felt the room tilt.
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Caroline had not merely frightened Lily with a custody story.
She had told a four-year-old that Victoria’s dead mother was alive.
