Chapter 3 - THE NAME BURIED FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Eleanor had also been the name of Evelyn’s only daughter.
According to the Ashford family, Eleanor had stolen money, disgraced the family, and disappeared twenty-five years earlier.
Her name had been removed from portraits, charitable records, and even the family Bible.
Grant insisted the similarity meant nothing.
He called Eleanor a liar who had abandoned everyone who loved her.
But Lily remembered something her foster mother had once said: her biological mother had not abandoned her.
She had been told her baby died.
Evelyn opened the silver locket for the first time in decades.
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Inside was a faded photograph of Eleanor wearing half of a matching heart pendant.
Around Lily’s neck, hidden beneath her waitress collar, hung the other half.
