Chapter 4 - THE WOMAN WITH MY FACE
The woman in the video was not me.
She was my identical twin, Vivian Sterling.
Declared dead at birth.
My parents had hidden her because the Sterling trust recognized only one surviving daughter as future matriarch.
Vivian was raised by another family under a sealed arrangement.
Nathan found her in adulthood.
He trained her to use my identity in medical and financial transactions.
The clinic footage showed Vivian authorizing storage of Sterling genetic material.
She believed Nathan would restore her name and half the inheritance.
Instead, he used her as a legal substitute.
Then she disappeared.
Clara had never known she had an aunt.
I had never known I had a sister.
Evelyn traced Vivian’s records to a psychiatric hospital in Maine.
She had been confined there for nineteen years under my name.
When investigators reached the facility, her room was empty.
A nurse said a man claiming to be Richard Sterling collected her two days earlier.
My husband Richard had died eight years ago.
Another dead man was moving through the case.
Then Clara remembered Dominic sometimes called her “Vivian” during his rages.
She thought he was confusing her with another woman.
He was not.
The Ward plan had repeated the Sterling twin strategy.
One legal woman.
One hidden substitute.
One identity powerful men could switch when convenient.
Then a photograph arrived at the hospital.
Vivian stood beside Dominic.
Recent.
She held a newborn.
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THE FIRST STERLING HEIR IS ALREADY ALIVE.
Read Chapter 5 to discover who the newborn belonged to.
