Damon's breathing grew uneven.
He looked at Walter, then at the woman in yellow.
“Who are you?” he whispered to her. “Who are you really?”
Her face twisted.
“Damon, please. Whatever he told you, it's not the whole story.”
“Then tell me the truth!”
She opened her mouth.
But before she could answer, the security monitor emitted a sharp electronic beep.
A new notification appeared.
ARCHIVED FOOTAGE FOUND — DATE: 35 YEARS AGO.
Evelyn stared at the screen.
“There's more?”
Walter slowly turned toward the cabinet.
His expression had changed.
For the first time that evening, the old man looked genuinely afraid.
“Don't play that recording,” he said.
Damon looked at him in disbelief.
“You just spent all this time telling me to look at the truth. Now you want me to stop?”
Walter lowered his eyes.
“Some truths don't just destroy lies, Damon. They destroy the lives built around them.”
The woman in yellow suddenly stopped moving.
Then she whispered six words that made Damon turn toward her.
“Your father wasn't the man you think.”
The monitor began playing the archived footage automatically.
A hospital corridor appeared on the screen.
A young woman stood outside a delivery room, cradling a newborn child.
Beside her stood a man whose face was hidden in shadow.
The timestamp flickered.
Then the camera zoomed in.
Damon dropped the letter.
Because the man standing beside the newborn was not his father.
It was Walter Hayes.
And the woman holding the baby was wearing the same distinctive gold necklace the woman in yellow wore around her neck that very moment.
Damon slowly lifted his eyes.
“Tell me,” he whispered, his voice breaking, “what happened in that hospital?”
Walter said nothing.
The woman in yellow backed toward the door.
Evelyn stepped in front of her.
“Not this time.”
Damon picked up the letter with trembling hands and read the final line.
There is one more secret, Damon. The woman standing beside you already knows it.
He looked up.
The woman in yellow was crying again.
But this time, nobody believed her tears.
To be continued…