Chapter 2: Something Bianca Had Signed
Evelyn could barely stand.
I held her up as she gripped my arm, her fingers cold, her wedding dress grey with dust and age.
"How long?" I asked.
She looked at me with hollow eyes.
"Three years, Daniel.
I never stopped counting."
I turned to Bianca.
She hadn't moved.
She was watching Evelyn the way you watch something you thought was buried.
"You knew," I said.
"You knew the whole time."
"You don't understand what she found out," Bianca said quietly.
"You don't know what she would have done."
"What I would have done?" Evelyn's voice cracked.
"I was going to marry your brother.
That's all I was going to do."
Bianca's jaw tightened.
"You saw the papers, Evelyn.
You weren't supposed to see those papers."
The room went still.
I looked at Evelyn.
She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them.
"Daniel," she said softly.
"The morning of our wedding, I went looking for you.
I found something in your father's study instead."
She paused.
"Something Bianca had signed."
Bianca stepped forward.
"Don't."
But Evelyn was already reaching into the torn fabric at her waist — and pulling out a folded envelope that had been hidden there for three years.
What was in that envelope — and why was Bianca willing to do the unthinkable to keep it buried?
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The truth is darker than anyone in that room was ready for.
