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“I looked past her to the writing on the tombstone she’d just stepped away from. There was no name on the cross, no year, but an inscription had been added.
May her memory be eternal.”

☹️

“The last time I was here,” I said, making a mental note to kill my mom for bringing us into this unprepared, “there was only one tombstone.”

DID LILLIAN DIE

“Sadie-Grace took off her scarlet robe and placed it around Lily’s shoulders. “Just remember,” she cautioned, “what we’re about to tell you doesn’t change who you are. It’s just like musical chairs, but with parents.”

WELL THANK GOODNESS THEIR NOT HALF SIBLINGS OMG

“Daddy didn’t know,” Campbell said decisively. “You were his favorite. You’re still Mama’s favorite. . . .”
“She told me that she loved me extra—in case he didn’t.”
Campbell took a moment to recover from that and then shrugged. “In that case,” she said, pivoting, “Lily, we have slightly less devastating news for you.”

“Trust me,” Victoria told him, “you’ll be very glad once this secret is out. Very. Glad.”
“Fine.” “I’m a bastard.”
“This again?” Campbell asked. “I thought you got all of that pesky self-loathing out of your system last year.”

“Oh, God, I thought suddenly. Walker and Lily.
If Lily was Ana’s baby, then her father was Sterling Ames. And if Lily’s father was Sterling Ames, that meant that Campbell was her half-sister.
And Walker was her half-brother.”

OH MY GODD. Sawyer why would you remind us💔

“Kaci,” Lillian stated, exasperated, “I will do no such thing.”
The name—Kaci—froze Aunt Olivia in her spot.
“Kaci?” I repeated.
“You know.” Aunt Olivia’s voice shook, like Lillian knowing her real name was somehow more unfortunate than the fact that she’d been caught holding us hostage at gunpoint.”

SHE KNEW

“Ellen said she didn’t take a dime from the people who adopted Ana’s baby,” I told Aunt Olivia. “Ana got paid, but Ellen didn’t.” I paused. “Ellen wouldn’t take your money.”
“Wait a second,” Campbell interjected. “Are you implying . . .”
That Lily is Ana’s baby.”

I KNEW IT

Wait so does this mean JD was in love w the real Olivia?

“My mom knew,” I said. “She might not have known known, but she sure as hell knew you didn’t feel like her sister anymore.”
“That wasn’t my fault. I wanted to be a good sister to Ellie, but she just made that so impossible! I had to keep her at a distance, and she never forgave me for that. J.D. could never quite forgive me, either. And that, sweetheart, is how this family ended up with you.”