“I am your mother.”
Lily’s fingers tightened around mine.
“No,” she said quietly. “She is.”
I thought that would be the end of the night.
Then Mr. Whitmore approached with another file.
“There is one more secret.”
“I have heard enough secrets.”
“This one concerns Caroline.”
“What about her?”
“William believed she died twenty years ago.”
“Did she?”
He shook his head.
“Eleanor placed her inside a private psychiatric hospital after Caroline discovered the pregnancy.”
My breath caught.
“Caroline is alive?”
“She escaped six weeks ago.”
“Where is she?”
“No one knows.”
Lily tugged my hand.
“Mom, I know that lady.”
“What lady?”
She pointed toward the upper balcony.
A thin woman in a simple gray dress stood behind the railing.
Her hair was streaked with white.
Her face looked older than Caroline’s photograph.
But the eyes were the same.
“She came to my school yesterday,” Lily whispered. “She said she was my sister.”
The woman raised one hand.
Then the ballroom lights went out.
When the emergency lights came on, she was gone.
Security found a small envelope on the balcony.
Inside was a photograph of Eleanor standing beside Judge Harrington and three frightened young women.
On the back, Caroline had written:
Lily was not the only baby they abandoned.
There was also a list of twelve names.
Beside the final name was a warning.
One of the missing children is still inside this house.
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