Chapter 22
Chapter 22: The Shattering Truth The phone slipped from Dream’s nerveless fingers, clattering to the marble floor. The sound was absurdly loud in the ringing silence of her room. She came to me for help. To escape. From them. The words looped in her mind, a terrible, shattering refrain. The beautiful, painful story Tom had told her—the lonely mother, the charming interloper, the abandoned boy—was a lie. A meticulously crafted lie, planted by his own grandfather. Genevieve Blackthorn hadn’t chosen to leave her son. She had been sent away. Exiled to cover up a financial scandal. And her father… her kind, gentle father, had not been a seducer, but a rescuer. He had helped a terrified woman disappear, and in doing so, had made himself the perfect scapegoat. Tom’s entire life—his bitternes
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