For several seconds, Lily couldn't move.
Couldn't breathe.
Couldn't think.
The words on the paper blurred before her eyes.
Claire had been searching for Lily for years.
Years.
Not weeks.
Not months.
Years.
The realization hit harder than anything else.
Because it destroyed the one thing Lily had believed from the beginning.
That Claire entered her life because of Ethan.
Apparently, she hadn't.
Lucas watched her carefully.
"Lily?"
His voice sounded distant.
Almost muffled.
Because her mind was somewhere else.
Somewhere inside the past.
Somewhere inside a mystery she didn't understand.
Slowly, she turned another page.
Then another.
Then another.
The deeper she looked, the worse it became.
Old photographs.
Newspaper clippings.
Names.
Addresses.
Records.
Everything
