Hazel's POV
"Julian Daniel's Hidden Brother, His Sister's Secret Crime," the headline screamed across every screen in our kitchen by seven the next morning, and my stomach dropped straight through the floor.
Julian stood frozen at the counter, coffee forgotten entirely, scrolling through an article that laid bare nearly everything we had spent weeks trying to protect.
"How," he said quietly. "We had not released our statement yet. Marcus said we had time."
"Someone leaked it first," I said, my hands trembling as I read further down the article, searching for the source of information only a handful of people could possibly have known.
The byline belonged to a journalist named Sophie Vance, and buried near the bottom of the article was a single quoted source described only as "a woman
