PART 4: THE SON WHO STOPPED BELIEVING IN HIS MOTHER
Adrian looked at Noah.
Really looked.
The trembling boy behind the truth.
His voice broke.
“Did you… do this?”
Noah shook his head violently.
“I told you, Daddy…”
Silence.
Adrian closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, something inside him had changed permanently.
He turned to Eleanor.
“You framed my son.”
Eleanor inhaled slowly.
Then calmly replied:
“I corrected a mistake before it became weakness.”
That sentence broke something in Adrian completely.
He stepped back.
“For years… I trusted you more than my own wife.”
Eleanor didn’t deny it.
That was her answer.
Isabella tightened her grip on Noah.
May you like
Not fear anymore.
Finality.
