Chapter 6 - THE FIRST MARRIAGE
Her name was Anna Reed.
She had married me during a private ceremony twelve years earlier.
I was twenty-six.
I remembered attending a “family commitment retreat” with Margaret.
I remembered signing documents.
I did not remember a wedding.
Anna had been selected through the same program.
The marriage was annulled after she refused to produce an heir for the trust.
Margaret told me the retreat had been canceled.
Anna was sent to St. Vance and declared unstable.
She had remained there for twelve years.
Alive.
Legally erased.
The Carter family had practiced on her before Clara.
When investigators entered St. Vance, Anna was found in a locked residential wing.
She knew Sienna.
Called her “the black-dress girl.”
Sienna had visited every month to make sure Anna remained silent.
Then Anna revealed another secret.
She had given birth.
A daughter.
The child had been taken immediately.
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Name: Lily Carter.
Read Chapter 7 to discover where Lily had been raised.
