Chapter 2: The Lie Inside the Hospital
The next morning, Ethan returned to the children's hospital where they had first met.
Most records had been archived.
One retired nurse still remembered them.
She brought out an old patient file.
Lily's leukemia had gone into remission after an experimental treatment.
She had survived.
But while Ethan was away recovering from emergency surgery after a car accident, Lily's guardian transferred her to another city.
At the same time, Ethan's father received a phone call.
Someone falsely claimed Lily had died.
No funeral.
No obituary.
Just a lie.
The nurse lowered her head.
“I always wondered why neither of you ever came back.”
An investigation uncovered the truth.
Ethan's wealthy grandfather had paid Lily's legal guardian to disappear.
He believed a sick orphan had no place in the future of the Carter family.
Money had erased every trail.
Until now.
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For twenty years...
Both of them had been grieving someone who was still alive.
