Chapter 19 - The Man Who Was Supposed to Be DeadThe next morning, Maria finally told them.
Their father was named Gabriel Vale.
He had been a financial strategist who discovered the Harrington family's illegal attempts to control the trust.
He tried to expose them.
He disappeared.
Everyone believed he had been murdered.
But Maria had received one letter from him five years earlier.
He was alive.
And he had been watching from a distance.
Julian felt anger rise.
“Why didn't you tell us?”
“Because I was afraid he was being watched.”
Noah looked at the ocean.
“Where is he now?”
Maria reached into the metal box.
There was one final photograph.
A man standing beside a lighthouse.
On the back was an address.
Julian looked at Noah.
Noah looked at him.
Neither needed to speak.
Their past had given them one another.
Their future belonged to them.
But somewhere beyond the horizon was the man whose blood ran through both their veins.
Julian folded the photograph.
“We find him.”
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Maria smiled sadly.
“Then we find him together.”
