Chapter 54: The Second Son
Silence consumed the room.
The words echoed like thunder.
Nathan's son.
Alexander had a brother.
"No."
The whisper escaped Margaret's lips.
Her face had gone completely white.
Rachel looked equally stunned.
"That's impossible."
But no one sounded convinced.
Because impossible things had become ordinary in the world of Atlas.
Samuel swallowed hard.
"I may be wrong."
Silence.
"But look at the dates."
Everyone turned toward him.
He spread the documents across the table.
Nathan's death.
The accident.
The unpublished article.
Daniel's survival.
Everything happened within days of each other.
Too close.
Far too close.
Victor slowly sat down.
As though his legs could no longer hold him.
"No."
He looked at Margaret.
"Isabelle only had one chil
