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THE WOMAN WHO INHERITED MY DEATH
Episode 11: The Child Before Us
Evelyn didn’t ask what the message said.
She didn’t need to.
Nadia watched her sister’s expression settle into something carefully blank, the way a person might arrange furniture over a hole in the floor.
“You knew,” Nadia said.
Evelyn glanced at the phone. “I knew there was another child.”
“Whose child?”
“I don’t know.”
“Don’t do that.”
“Do what?”
“Give me the smallest piece of the truth and act as if you’ve handed me the whole thing.”
Evelyn looked away.
Nadia held up the phone.
“Someone claims Richard has been paying medical bills for eleven years. Someone else claims you already know about Adrian’s first child. Are both claims lies?”
“I don’t know whether the payments are real.”
“But you know about the child.”
“Yes.”
The admission landed harder than Nadia expected.
“How long?”
“Since three months ago.”
