Chapter 2 - Uncovering The Shocking Truth Behind The Fake Mother
The dial tone hummed in Nora’s ear like an angry insect as the line finally went dead.
She lowered her phone slowly, staring at the dimly lit hallway wallpaper with a sickening sensation in her stomach.
The woman who had terrorized four-year-old Sophie at the garden party wasn't a snobbish mother-in-law at all.
She was a hired actress, a stranger collected from the streets and paid a monthly retainer by Adrian himself.
Why would any man invent a fictional family and pay a stranger to humiliate his own flesh and blood?
The question echoed hollowly in her mind as she walked back toward Sophie’s bedroom on tiptoe.
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Inside the small room, her daughter slept peacefully, clutching a worn-out stuffed rabbit with innocent oblivion.
Nora stood in the doorway for a long moment, realizing she knew almost nothing about the man she had married.
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