CHAPTER 2: THE LIE THAT STOLE A DAUGHTER
The moment Lily spoke Anna's name, Reginald knew something was terribly wrong.
His son Victor immediately tried to dismiss the child as a fraud. He insisted the necklace could be fake and warned his father not to trust a stranger.
But Victor's urgency only raised more questions.
Reginald demanded answers.
He ordered family records brought to the banquet hall and began reviewing documents surrounding Anna's disappearance.
The deeper he looked, the more inconsistencies he found.
A death certificate with suspicious dates.
Missing correspondence.
Financial records that didn't make sense.
For the first time in years, Reginald stopped seeing Victor as a loyal son and started seeing him as a man protecting a secret.
Meanwhile, Lily revealed the truth.
Anna was alive.
Sick.
Living in poverty only a few miles away.
The revelation devastated Reginald. While he had spent years hosting charity galas and funding public causes, his own daughter had been struggling to survive. His granddaughter had entered his birthday banquet hungry enough to beg for bread.
When Victor tried to stop him from leaving, Reginald realized something even more disturbing.
Victor wasn't afraid of being wrong.
He was afraid of Anna being found.
And that fear told Reginald everything he needed to know.
That night, the banquet ended early.
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Food was packed for Lily and Anna.
And Reginald set out to find the daughter he had mourned for fourteen years.
