The revelation had floored Margeaux. She was surprised but not flabbergasted by her father’s secrets. However, even though Margeaux was only sixteen years old when her mother died—and not necessarily privy to adult aspects of her mother’s life—she thought she knew her mother pretty well. How could it be that her mother also had an entire secret past she’d kept from her daughter all those years? One Margeaux knew nothing about until now? Especially given that, Margeaux soon learned, she was at the center of the secret. Over tea, Sister Jeanne had outlined that Margeaux’s mother, Bernadette Loraine, had been a novice at Saint James and had intended to take the vow until she was lured away by love. It sort of sounded like the Sound of Music, except the man who tempted her was not a widowed captain with seven singing children. No, there had only been one child when her seventeen-year-old mother left, and that child would be named Margeaux Simone Broussard. Her mother had been pregnant when she ran away with Margeaux’s father to start a new life.
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