Chapter 147 Eloise's Story
"Honey, do you really know who Leo is?"
Caroline's question dropped out of the blue like that, completely
sideswiping Alistair.
Okay, if I'm not mistaken, he's her actual cousin, right?
But Alistair knew Caroline well enough to know she wouldn't ask
something so blindingly obvious.
And he already knew about the musical genius, the mega-star
status.
What else is there?
Caroline's mood seemed to dip. "I never told you Eloise's story, did I? Her background?"
It hit Alistair like a jolt of electricity, a shiver running straight through him. "He's..."
Caroline just nodded with a quiet Mm-hmm.
Alistair fell silent.
Back before he and Caroline had really connected, before they
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were on the same wavelength, he'd occasionally let his mind wander, wondering who Eloise's biological father might be.
Later, when he found out Caroline had adopted Eloise, his
curiosity about her origins was piqued.
Caroline had told him bits and pieces. Her own mother had died in childbirth, and her father was a world-class scumbag.
But never in a million years would he have guessed that Eloise's biological father was a household name, a celebrity practically everyone on the planet knew...
Eloise's birth mother had been a huge fan of Leo's, not much older
than Caroline herself.
Right before she went into labor, she'd somehow managed to track down Caroline's email address. Maybe she'd had some kind of premonition, a feeling that she wasn't going to make it because she'd sent Caroline an email, a desperate plea for Leo to come
and see her one last time.
She'd promised she would never, ever bother him again.
Over a year later, Caroline finally logged into that old email account and stumbled across the message. She'd been stunned. After a ton of digging and dead ends, she finally found Eloise, a tiny, underweight, sickly little girl.
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The very first moment she laid eyes on Eloise, Caroline knew she
had to adopt her.
Alistair's heart clenched, a wave of pain washing over him for
Eloise, losing her mother the moment she was born, then being. passed around,
treated like nothing more than a burden.
Thank God she'd found Caroline.
Hearing the full story of his precious little girl's beginnings, Alistair
felt a fresh wave of fear, a retroactive chill.
just blown off that
be right
a smart girl,
to escape her small,
family, in their town, that was the
Eloise was just given
Maybe they'd even loved her as their own. But
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got pregnant with her
blood, they completely lost interest in raising Eloise. They
an elderly relative, basically
tirelessly for days, following
abandoned in a literal dirt
weak they
story in a
chest
took his
He suddenly missed Eloise.
little face, hug her tight, swing her up
air, and hear
on being a good father,
had given her
possessed,
now, hearing this? It feels like it isn't enough. Not
dropped Eloise off at Mabel's earlier that
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her stories while they took the dog for a walk. Yesterday's story had been a long
pact to
question suddenly popped into Alistair's head. "Does Leo even know? Does
dad? The kind who loves
Eloise's father."
Always with a spot-on
reached out and tucked a stray strand of hair
you and your
shook her head slightly. "Not
mother."
took Alistair a beat to connect the dots.
Caroline's aunt.
Alistair hadn't met a single one of Caroline's
New York, so she'd chosen to
was the main reason Caroline had decided to stay in
York herself.
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and her aunt both lived down in
non-existent. He'd certainly never seen or
own words, they were all
should have been family, were just
to judge her
instinct was
profound sympathy.
she so close to her
aunt? What happened there?
be some serious,
wife must have gone through a hell of a lot
growing up.
relatively
father had remarried, and even that had brought its
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family? That has to
and messy.
"Aaaah!!"
in a
scream
evening air.
hell was
took a nasty
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