PART 2: My Blind Husband Finally Told Me Why My Parents Tried to Keep Us Apart

For several seconds, I couldn’t speak.

I simply stared at Adrian.

“What did you discover?”

He reached into his jacket and placed a small envelope on the table.

“I found this before we got married.”

My hands trembled as I touched it.

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I was afraid you would confront them before I understood the whole story.”

I opened the envelope.

Inside was a photocopy of an old business document.

At the top was my father’s company name.

I recognized it immediately.

“What am I looking at?”

Adrian spoke quietly.

“An insurance agreement.”

I frowned.

“Your parents took out a large policy years ago,” he continued. “And the beneficiary wasn’t your mother.”

My heart began pounding.

“Who was it?”

He turned the document toward me.

My name was listed as the beneficiary.

I stared at it.

“That doesn’t make sense.”

“There’s more.”

Adrian placed another document beside it.

This one was dated only weeks before our wedding.

It showed a transfer of money from my father’s company into an account I had never heard of.

The recipient was the son of their business partner.

The man my parents had wanted me to marry.

I felt sick.

“Why would they do that?”

Adrian took my hand.

“Because your parents had been losing money.”

“How much?”

“Millions.”

I shook my head.

“My father always told me the business was doing incredibly well.”

“He was lying.”

Adrian’s voice remained calm.

“I discovered the financial records while helping your father’s former accountant. He was blind, too, and your father underestimated what we could notice.”

I looked at him.

“So they didn’t hate you because you were blind.”

“No.”

He paused.

“They were afraid I would tell you what they had done.”

My eyes filled with tears.

“What had they done?”

Adrian opened another folder.

Inside were copies of bank transfers, contracts, and correspondence.

Your father had secretly moved company funds into several private accounts.

But one of the accounts was connected to the family of the man they wanted you to marry.

They weren’t trying to arrange a marriage for social status.

They were trying to protect themselves.

I felt my chest tighten.

“And me?”

Adrian looked at me.

“You were supposed to be the solution.”

I couldn’t understand.

“What do you mean?”

“They planned for you to marry that man. Then your family would combine its remaining assets with his family’s business.”

I stared at the documents.

“So when I chose you…”

“They panicked.”

Suddenly, all those years of silence made sense.

The disapproval.

The threats.

The inheritance.

The way my parents had treated Adrian as if he were the problem.

They weren’t protecting me.

They were protecting themselves.

Then Adrian reached into the folder and pulled out one final photograph.

It showed my father standing beside the business partner.

But there was someone else in the picture.

My sister.

I stopped breathing.

“She knew?”

Adrian nodded.

“She knew before the wedding.”

My hands began shaking.

“Then why did she cut me off?”

“Because she was afraid you would discover everything.”

I looked toward the dark lake outside the café.

For ten years, I had believed my family abandoned me because I married a blind man.

Now I realized something far more painful.

They had abandoned me because I refused to become part of their plan.

Then Adrian said something that made my heart stop.

“Claire, there is one final reason I waited ten years to tell you.”

I turned toward him.

“What?”

He reached for my hand.

“Your parents contacted me last week.”

My breath caught.

“What did they want?”

Adrian looked toward the window.

“They want to see you.”

I couldn’t speak.

After ten years of silence, my parents suddenly wanted to meet me.

But Adrian’s next words made my stomach twist.

“They didn’t contact me to apologize.”

He paused.

“They contacted me because they know I still have the original evidence.”

And they are willing to do almost anything to get it back.

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