Isabelle’s Confession
Finally, Isabelle revealed the truth—her father had orchestrated everything. She had run away believing it was the only way to protect Clara. “I thought she’d be better off without me,” she said. Maxime, overwhelmed with anger and pain, couldn’t understand how she could have faked her death and abandoned her own child.
Five years after the death of my wife, I took my daughter to my childhood friend’s wedding, and when I saw the bride, she asked me: “Daddy, why are you crying?”
