Liora stopped breathing for a moment as the full implications crashed over her.
Real father. Not Thessian. Someone else.
She pulled up the photo albums with shaking hands, not from emotion but from pure adrenaline, the thrill of uncovering something massive. Page after page of family photos spread before her. Thessian, Aria, and little Nyla in countless snapshots of domestic happiness. The perfect family.
Except nothing about it was perfect.
