Her voice cracked.
“She hid them because she was carrying your child when they buried her name… and I was born with the proof.”
The rich woman covered her mouth with shaking fingers.
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The store owner looked from the letters to the ring and whispered:
“So the vanished bride left behind a daughter.”
The crying woman wiped her tears, kept her gaze locked on the man who could no longer move, and said:
“I didn’t come here to blackmail you.”
Her voice trembled.
“I came because my mother was buried with one ring… and I’m the reason the second one survived.”
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