The Public Misread
Elena Voss stepped into the grand hotel ballroom, the polished marble floors reflecting the crystal chandeliers overhead. The murmur of high society buzzed like a swarm, but her ears caught only one disturbing note: the paternity rumor that had already leapt through St. Aldric’s elite parent circles was now closing in on her like a predator. Just hours ago, the school’s emergency call had shattered her fragile calm. The rumor about her five-year-old son Leo’s father was no longer a whispered secret; it was a wildfire, and this gala was its perfect stage.
She felt the weight of a hundred glances slicing through her—some curious, others sharp with thinly veiled disdain. Elena’s lips pressed into a tight line as she navigated the room, her heels clicking with a precision that belie
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