reminded Dad of the family he had built before her.
Then came the sentence that made my stomach drop.
Chloe is not entering your life by pure accident, my sweet Paige.
Years earlier, during a temporary separation my parents had hidden from me, Dad had carried on an ongoing affair with Gwendolyn.
Chloe was supposedly his biological daughter.
Which meant the girl I had believed was my stepsister was actually my half-sister.
Suddenly, every strange dynamic from my childhood made sense.
Dad’s endless compliance.
His obsessive need to “keep the
