Chapter 67

Perhaps Rena’s deception was so artfully executed that Eloise found herself believing it.

Following their dinner, Rena retreated to her room and retrieved a large box, from which she extracted a photo album.

Carefully opening its pages, a photograph of her mother during her youth graced its surface.

Rena caressed it gently, a touch filled with longing.

Her mother had passed away when she was merely ten years old.

A year later, her father married Eloise.

Rena could vividly recall the frequent quarrels between her father and Eloise during that time.

On one occasion, Eloise wept inconsolably and queried why her husband treated someone else’s child so well while refusing to let her bear their own child.

It was then that Rena discovered she was not Darren’s biological daughter.

Fearful of sudden abandonment, she would sometimes indulge in childish demands for a sibling whenever Darren and Eloise did not quarrel.

Eloise had never

and

immense

the thought of Eloise enduring a decade or more behind

prompting Rena to hastily wipe it

to Rena, Eloise observed this poignant scene from the

of voices, Eloise spoke

to meet someone? Put on

photo album, returning it to

her feet and

an overwhelming urge compelled Rena to embrace Eloise

unsettling feeling gripped

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offered a faint smile and assured her that the person Vera had sought help from was highly

might even hold him in high regard, which persuaded Eloise

gentle closing of the door, Rena leaned against it, her gaze vacant and lost in thought for an

dusk had already settled upon

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