**Katherine**
Every time I closed my eyes, Damian's voice echoed inside my head.
"A week before our wedding... I found out we're family." Then my father and grandfather.
The impossible truth that had been buried for decades. I sat upright on my bed.My head is still aching from yesterday's conversations.
For the first time in my life, I wished none of it had happened. I wished Damian had simply betrayed me.
That would have been easier to accept than discovering our families had been connected all along.
I left my bed to go into the bathroom, splashed cold water across my face and stared at my reflection.
Dark circles sat beneath my eyes. "You look terrible," I whispered to myself. The woman looking back at me hardly looked like Katherine Blackwood.
I had married Adrian barely two da
