Larry snatched the documents, his fingers trembling. "Impossible... The Shepherd family clearly..."
"The Shepherd family?" Samuel sneered. "Did you really think the Shepherds, who sold their own daughters just to climb the social ladder, deserve the heiress of a shipping empire?"
He gently lifted my bangs, revealing brows identical to my mother's. "Look at these brows—did they never make you suspicious?"
Larry staggered back, leaving chaotic footprints in the snow. "All those years..." His voice was hoarse. "Why didn't you tell me?"
I gazed at the man I'd loved for a lifetime, the burn scar over my heart aching anew. "What would I have told you?" I murmured. "That I carried you from the fire, only for a beam to crush my back? That I studied German just to help you? Or..."
I rolled up
