Chapter 15

Stellan stared at the screen, his eyes widening in shock. His grip on the phone tightened, his knuckles bleaching white. The email showed Lucia kissing a stranger beneath a night sky where seven planets had aligned. It was the very same sky he had once shared with Celine as they made their wishes. A wave of dizziness hit him. The phone slipped from his hand and landed on the floor with a muffled thud. Lucia was supposed to be dead. Hadn't she thrown herself into the sea, driven by the despair Celine had left in her wake? So, who was the woman in the photo? Stellan called for Reuben immediately and ordered an investigation into the email's image. The results of the investigation shattered him. The photo was real. "Lucia… is still… alive?" Stellan's voice was raw with disbelief. If that were true, what had everything he'd done all these years even meant? All for the woman he believed was dead, he had tormented Celine for three long years. He had killed their three children with hi