Chapter 6 - THE WAR BEGINS

Within forty-eight hours, everything changed.

People who didn’t know me hated me.

Neighbors whispered.

Friends asked questions.

The internet decided I was the villain.

Diane had turned one dinner into a battlefield.

And she was winning.

Ryan came to my house again.

This time, he didn’t come with excuses.

He came with evidence.

“She hired a lawyer.”

I looked at him.

“Of course she did.”

“She’s planning to sue you.”

“For what?”

“Assault.”

I laughed.

Not because it was funny.

Because it was unbelievable.

“She insulted my mother for years.”

“I know.”

“She humiliated her.”

“I know.”

“But somehow I’m the criminal.”

Ryan looked down.

“I’m sorry.”

I stared at him.

“Stop saying that.”

“Why?”

“Because I need more than words.”

He nodded.

“What do you need?”

I looked at the folder in his hand.

“The truth.”

For the first time, Ryan and I wanted the same thing.

The truth.

But finding the truth meant going back into the past.

And the past had teeth.

That evening, my mother received a letter.

No return address.

No signature.

Inside was a single sentence.

“Ask your daughter who really saved her father’s company.”

My mother dropped the paper.

I picked it up.

“What does this mean?”

She looked terrified.

Then she said something I never expected.

“Emma…”

“Yes?”

“There is something I never told you about your father.”

I waited.

She whispered:

“You weren’t the only child he had.”

My entire world stopped.

“What?”

My mother looked toward the window.

And then she said the words that would change our family forever.

“Your father had another daughter.”

A daughter.

Another daughter.

Someone who had been hidden from me my entire life.

And somewhere out there…

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