Chapter 51 – The Truth About Bianca
POV: Markus
The report sat on Markus’s desk long after the investigator left.
He had read every page.
Then he read it again.
And again.
Each time, the words seemed to cut deeper.
Felicia had been pregnant.
Not only pregnant.
She had been carrying six children.
His children.
Six little lives that should have grown up knowing their father. Six children whose first cries he never heard. Six children whose first steps he never witnessed. Six children who had spent five years calling another man family while he remained a stranger.
The pain of it sat heavily inside his chest.
He had thought the report would bring answers.
Instead, it brought guilt.
The worst kind of guilt.
The kind that could not be fixed.
The kind that followed a man into hi
