Page 8 of Richmond’s Legacy

“Sometimes, the most obvious answer is the correct one. But regardless, it’s always best to start at the beginning.”

“The beginning? Of what?”

“Well, what’s weighing on you the most.”

Jace. But that wasn’t what Oren was talking about.

“What’s always weighed on me, I guess. Finding out who my father is.”

“Oh, Greer.” Oren rocked back on his heels, his face a mask of genuine pain. “My heart hurts for you. You know, I’ve always thought of you as a daughter.”

“Thank you, Oren. You’ve always been so kind.”

“What else is on your mind?”

“I guess just everything having to do with the house. Anna and what I saw today. What I thought I saw.”

“Then let’s go back to the beginning of Anna.”

“The beginning of Anna…was Eugenia?”

“And the beginning of Eugenia? What do you know about the woman? Really know about her?”

“I know she came to work at Richmond House when she was a young girl. That she and Sterling had an affair decades later.”

Oren sat tight-lipped as realization dawned in the form of a sinking weight in the pit of my stomach. I’d just decided Eugenia deserved the benefit of the doubt, but what did I really know about her? About the years she’d lived here with Sterling?

Start at the beginning…

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