Had she been hiding the truth all along?
The Truth Revealed
The next day, Matteo returned to the plaza.
She was there.
Sitting in the same place. Waiting.
“You are Lucinda,” he said quietly.
Her pale eyes opened. “I am.”
“Why now?” he asked. “Why appear to my daughters?”
Her voice trembled.
“Because they called me. I felt them before I saw them. And when they touched me… I knew.”
Matteo’s chest tightened.
“Knew what?”
“They can see.”
“That’s impossible.”
Lucinda shook her head gently.
“Not impossible. Different.”
She reached into her blanket and pulled out a small vial.
Isadora’s perfume.
“I kept this,” she whispered. “Waiting for the day her children would find me.”
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