Chapter 21 - A Final Whispered Secret That Changes Everything Forever Now
Late that night, after my mother had fallen into a peaceful, natural sleep, I walked out onto the veranda. Delia stood by the stone railing looking out over the snow-covered gardens under the pale moonlight.
I stepped up beside her, wrapping my woolen coat around her shoulders to keep out the bitter Chicago wind. She looked up at me, her dark eyes shining with a secret she had carried through the darkest years of my life.
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"There's one more thing you need to know about Ewan's diary," she whispered, leaning close against my chest. "He didn't just leave papers behind; he left a child hidden in a safehouse across the Canadian border."
Before I could process the staggering revelation, my phone buzzed violently in my pocket with an encrypted satellite coordinate...
