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“But the truth doesn’t vanish just because you’re too weak to face it. It wasn’t a stranger. It was my own sister.”
“I gave him one chance to tell the truth. I asked calmly. I wanted to believe there was an explanation I could accept.”
Tears burned behind my eyes.
“He told me I was imagining things. That my illness made me paranoid. That I needed rest.”
Robert’s voice cracked slightly as he continued.
“I believed him. Because when you love someone for decades, you learn to question yourself before you question them.”
Silence settled heavily.
“But I kept watching. Quietly. And that’s when I realized something even worse. The child everyone believes belongs to another man… is his.”
“No,” I whispered.
I shook my head again and again. “That’s impossible. Someone would have noticed.”
“She did. Eventually.”
Robert kept reading.
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