Chapter 20My heart raced like an overworked thoroughbred. Connor hadn't told me the part about Ludovicus surviving the shipwreck. “Is he still alive today?”
“To be truthful, I don't think so. My father would be eighty, and no one has heard from him since he disappeared in 1968. Once my mother confessed the truth, I fruitlessly explored the African subcontinent. I've only connected with him and his ancestors through some relics I've come across.”
Renee advised that she'd left for the US after finishing high school in South Africa and learned about the dangers of the world. “My mother was very old-fashioned. She believed young girls needed to stay home and care for their husbands. I had grander dreams and disappeared as soon as I could. Hid out in America and Europe.” She'd admitted to bei
