Chapter 8 - THE NAME BURIED IN HER CHILDHOOD Marcus opened an old photograph.

Eleanor recognized the woman immediately.
Victoria Vance.
Her mother.
Officially dead for fifteen years.
Eleanor laughed.
Not because it was funny.
Because reality had become impossible.
“My mother died in a plane crash.”
“No body was recovered.”
“My father identified her belongings.”
“Your father lied.”
Marcus revealed that Victoria had once been a brilliant financial strategist.
Her company collapsed after a hostile acquisition engineered by Julian’s father.
Victoria lost everything.
Then disappeared.
“She didn’t die,” Marcus said.
“She rebuilt.”
“Into what?”
May you like
Marcus looked at sleeping Leo.
“Something powerful enough to destroy the Sterlings.”
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