Then he showed her messages from the period around conception.

Finally, according to Julian, she admitted that she had been seeing someone else around the same time.

She did not know with certainty which man was the father.

No DNA result yet.

Just uncertainty.

That was enough to collapse the fantasy Eleanor had already built around her precious “Vance heir.”

PART 3 — “BRING THE GIRLS BACK”

Julian remained on the phone.

“Chloe won’t even look at me.”