Chapter 4

Back in his youth, Wayne had been sent to the countryside for work. There, he had a brief romance with a young woman, and they had a daughter together.

But when he returned to the big city, he married a wealthy heiress from a family of similar standing, Barnaby's mother, and cut off all contact with the woman and their daughter.

When I saw that old, yellowed photo, my heart nearly stopped.

The young woman in the picture looked quite a bit like Sydney; their eyes and brows were so similar.

A wild guess started to take shape in my…