Chapter 5 - Claire Tried To Find Anna
Daniel could not understand one thing.
“If Claire believed Anna died, how did this pendant exist?”
Anna answered.
“Because she stopped believing.”
Three years before Claire died, she found an old county record listing Anna as a surviving minor after the fire.
That one line destroyed everything Victoria had told her.
Claire began searching quietly.
She hired a private investigator.
She found Anna’s last known foster placement.
But by then Anna had changed names.
Moved states.
Worked under cash jobs.
The search stalled.
Claire kept the photograph in a duplicate pendant.
One for herself.
One meant for Anna if she ever found her.
Daniel felt sick.
Claire had been searching for a sister while he knew nothing.
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Not because she distrusted him.
Because she was ashamed she had believed the lie for so long.
