He turned around then.

His eyes were red-rimmed.

“And now I find out that you are the reason they are even here.”

The secret lay between us, heavy and fragile.

The truth about the surrogacy.

The truth about why I had come to the estate as a housekeeper, just to be near the children I had carried but was never supposed to know.

Before I could speak, Daniel’s pocket vibrated.

He had turned his phone back on.

He pulled it out and looked at the screen.

His expression hardened.

“It is Victor Sterling,” Daniel said.

Victor was the largest shareholder after the Whitmore family.

He had always wanted the CEO seat.

“Do not answer it,” I said.

Daniel stared at the vibrating phone.

“I have to,” he said.

“If I do not, he will use it against me in the press.”

He pressed the button and put the phone to his ear.

He did not walk out of the room.

He stood right there, near the foot of my bed.

“This is Daniel,” he said.