Had all those years of kindness meant something completely different? Marcus saw the questions on my face.
“It’s much wor:se than you think,” he whispered. “You’d better sit down.”
Then he reached inside his jacket. He pulled out a folded piece of paper.
My sister’s handwriting was on it. My hands started trembling as I opened it.
The first line began: “Elise, if you’re reading this, it means something went wrong…” I kept reading.
Then I reached the sentence Nadia had apparently been hiding from our entire family for two years.
I looked at Marcus. “She knew?” His eyes filled with tears. “We both knew.”
And what he told me next made me question everything I thought I understood about their marriage.
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