Chapter 7 - The Voice From the Grave
Julian answered with trembling hands.
No one spoke for several seconds.
Then an elderly man's voice filled the line.
“This isn't Edward.”
“Who are you?”
“My name is Jonah Mercer.”
Julian froze.
“I've been waiting thirty-eight years to meet the man who stole my life.”
“I didn't steal anything.”
“I know.”
“My mother did.”
Jonah asked for one meeting.
No lawyers.
No police.
No Evelyn.
Julian agreed immediately.
When he hung up, Chloe quietly asked,
“Who is Jonah?”
Julian looked toward the broken soup bowl.
“I think... he's the man who should have grown up in my place.”
Upstairs, Chloe suddenly clutched her stomach.
Pain spread across her face.
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Her water had broken.
👉 Chloe went into labor just hours before Julian met the real Blackwood heir, forcing every hidden secret to collide at once.
