A message appeared before I could lower the phone.
Richard had attached a photograph of Lily standing outside her apartment.I called Lily immediately.
She answered on the fourth ring.
“Mom, are you with that man?”
“Who told you?”
“Dad.
He said a stranger followed you onto the ship.”
“He’s not a stranger.
His name is Daniel.”
Daniel stood, but I motioned for him to stay where Lily couldn’t see him.
“Your father has a twin brother.”
“Dad is an only child.”
“That’s what he told us.”
“Mom, please go to your cabin.
Dad says you haven’t been yourself since the divorce.”
The words pressed harder than Richard’s threat.
“Lily, I’m holding a clinic document with my forged signature.”
“He warned me you’d say something like that.”
“He warned you before I even called?”
Silence followed.
Then Lily said, “He showed me a DNA report.
