CHAPTER 4 — The Survivor Appears

The ballroom doors opened.
A man entered with a cane.
Half of his face was covered with burn scars.
The room erupted into whispers.
The woman's champagne glass slipped from her fingers and shattered across the marble floor.
"No..."
She stepped backward.
"It can't be..."
The man removed his hat.
"I remember everything, Evelyn."
The girl smiled for the first time.
"Uncle Daniel."
Daniel had been listed as dead for twelve years.
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But he had survived.
And he'd spent those years waiting for the truth.