“I know he is.”
“Lily, I have never met that man in my life.”
She thrust the phone closer. “You expect me to believe this is all a coincidence?”
I reached for a crooked picture frame and straightened it before realizing what I was doing.
“That’s how I know you’re hiding something.”
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Lily gave a bitter laugh.
“You always start cleaning when I ask about my father. That’s how I know you’re hiding something.”
“I told you the truth. Your father left before you were born.”
“No. You hid him because he was famous.” Her voice broke. “You let me believe my father didn’t want me when he probably never knew I existed.”
“That isn’t what happened.”
“You deprived me of my father for fifteen years,” she said. “And I’ll never forgive you for it.”
“Lily, resemblance isn’t proof,” I said. “Max filmed in our county, but so did hundreds of other people. I never met him.”
