Her Secret's Revealed
"Your mother is alive?" Charles exclaims. "Yes. She also...I also...I have a little sister." Della spits out the sentence. "Don't be ridiculous, Della! It's only you and your brother." Charles did not understand. Della squeezes his hand. "No, Papa. I have a little sister. She is about five years younger. Her name is Ruth O'Connell, and she is the reason why mother went through this elaborate hoax." "O'Connell? As in Tom O'Connell?" Della could see the gears turning in his eyes. "Yes. That is Ruth's father." Della watches her father's face. Charles shakes his head. "Your mother would spend long hours at the O'Connell house. I thought she was pregnant, but she insisted I imagined it." He falls quiet. Della knows better than to feel the void with noise. When her father was upset, he pre
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