Fake Daughter Is the Real Legend novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Sunday Dinner

Helen set down the ladle very gently, as if it might break.

"Marin," she said. "Darling. You're ill."

Her eyes filled. A tear ran down her cheek and she let it fall.

"She's been like this since the fall," she told the table. "She hears things. She thinks we're all against her."

"Poison?" the great-aunt whispered. "Helen, what is she saying?"

"I don't know, Aunt. I don't know." Helen put her hand to her chest. "I have given this family everything."

Sheldon rose from his chair.

"This is a disgrace," he said. "You come into this house, a girl with no name, and accuse the woman who took you in. I won't sit here for it."

"Sit down, Sheldon," I said. "It isn't your family."

"It will be."

"Your father's bank is going to hear about that sentence."

He opened his mouth, shut it again, and sat, with a red face.

I opened the folder and passed the first page down the table.

"This is a toxicology report from my own hair," I said. "Thallium. A heavy metal. Months of it."

The uncle read it and slowly put it down.

"This is the bank's record from last Tuesday," I said, and passed the second. "Helen signed out my grandmother's vault box four days before she read the test. Four days before she announced that I wasn't an Ashcroft."

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