Grant turned to Vanessa and asked the question everyone was thinking. Did she know about the pregnancy? Her silence lasted too long, and the entire cemetery noticed.

Finally, her mask shattered. “She would have ruined you,” she snapped. In trying to defend herself, she confessed the motive behind everything. The crowd no longer doubted what happened.

Grant looked at the children and broke down. His father had died without ever meeting his five grandchildren. Even William’s sister turned against Vanessa, refusing to defend her cruelty any longer.

The funeral continued, but nothing felt the same. One by one, my children placed white flowers on William’s coffin, saying goodbye to the grandfather they had been denied-