Chapter 767

Madelyn shivered, grappling with unfamiliar emotions.

‘Mom’s childhood sweetheart? But Rosario said Mom was an orphan and Father took her in, right?’

Even in the warm living room, Madelyn felt a chill go down her spine. She made her way to the study and opened the pink leather-bound notebook. As she leafed through its pages, she paused at one with precise, fine handwriting.

[January 20th, 1975, sunny. I turned sixteen today! Agustin gifted me a necklace and a stunning white pony. Can’t wait to ride it around town. I wonder what Mom and Dad have planned for my birthday.]

pony when a man on a large horse, sporting tall boots, startled me. He snarkily called

the doorway, I caught his eye. His towering height and intense look sent me hurrying back to my room. Mom says he’s around to protect Willowbrookshire, and Bethany seems to be smitten with him. She’s even mentioning marriage. But after he yelled at me

Madelyn had never heard of the place. She flipped

seemed to chronicle her mother’s teen years.

the

he be? I’m sorry, Erick. I won’t snap at you again, promise. Can you please come

for young couples to be living together at that age. Madelyn read several pages, then moved further

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