Chapter 2: Four Words Too Late
Part 2 ⬇️
Nobody moved.
Marcus kept staring at the photograph.
His hand was shaking.
"That's definitely my mom," he said again, quieter this time.
"Who took this picture?"
Her father sat down slowly.
He looked like a man watching his whole life collapse in front of him.
"We were together for almost two years," he said.
"Then she disappeared.
No call.
No letter.
Nothing.
I never knew why."
"She never mentioned you," Marcus said.
"Not once."
The daughter stepped between them.
"Someone tell me what is happening right now."
Her father looked at her with the saddest eyes she had ever seen.
"I need a DNA test before I say anything more.
But Marcus…
the timing.
The scar.
Your eyes." He stopped.
"I think I may be your father."
The room went completely silent.
Then Marcus's phone buzzed.
He looked down at the screen.
His face went pale.
It was a message from his mother.
It said only four words.
*Don't go to prom.*
He looked up at the father.
Then at the girl he had been dating for seven months.
"She knew," he whispered.
"She already knew."
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