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“And what’s more,” I went on, “I got pregnant with your child, Alexander! Take one look at me and tell me that this-“I gestured to my swollen belly- “was just a ploy!”

Alexander stared at me for several moments as if searching for a lie in my words. I held my ground, lifting my chin defiantly.

No. I would not let my father’s alleged actions reflect on me.

I was tired of living in that man’s shadow.

“I didn’t know,” I finally said, my words quivering slightly as some of the anger deflated from my body and was replaced with sorrow. Sorrow that my own father would use me like that. “Alexander, I swear to you, I had no idea about any of this.”

“I want to believe you.”

“Then believe me.”

Alexander’s lips parted. I half expected Gabriel to come out of the shadows now, just like he always did, although with silver handcuffs this time instead of cruel words. But he didn’t.

Finally, Alexander let out a sigh that made his shoulders sag. “I’m trying. It’s not easy when you’ve spent five years wondering-”

“Then you should have talked to me,” I cut him off. “Years ago, when this all started. You should have told

me what you suspected.”

I told

If Alexander had come to me five years ago and accused my father of murder,

everything. Because I had spent so long wanting to be the perfect daughter that I had

I may have survived my illness,

admitted. “But

right. I should

moment. The sounds of the reception drifted across the street–laughter and music and clinking glasses. I looked down at my hands. At the wedding ring

“Help with what?”

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planning to do to my

stared at me. “You want to turn against your

to my belly, where our baby was growing.

“Ella…”

have

“What?”