HEJ, MY LOVE

TESTIMONY

While journalists stalked the Gauthiers, Leone was referred to as baby A in both Swedish and France press.

The reporters were careful not to reveal his identity.

Jonas had no trouble obtaining the name change for Leone due to the circumstances.

The Potsmann avoided going out and lived almost in confinement until the noise died down; this took about a month.

"What do you think will happen concerning the charges against Sierra?" Jonas asked when Dirk visited.

"Well, considering the charges weighing on the Gauthiers. We can assume the ones against Sierra will be dropped and dismissed. If the judge indicts the Gauthiers, it's over. There's no way out for Bertrand. The more the police dig, the more they find; it's crazy. The French police are even looking into a cold case that occurred when he was in boarding school. Colette's book is a true shocker. Can you believe Bertrand would describe his crimes while in bed?"

For Sierra, the most significant blow was to think Colette spent years with a man she knew was a narcissistic psychopath, rapist, and murderer.

None knew her motives. Even though Cecile contacted her, nothing explained why Colette agreed to help nor why she went to such lengths to aid Jonas.

Sierra and Jonas had to wait for the last DNA tests and another confession that left them all dumbfounded.

The source was an outsider, the nurse who delivered Cecile at birth. Though old, her memory was sharp. 

"They were two, but the first one didn't cough or breath. All thought the child was stillborn. I managed to get the baby's heart to start beating with a massage. ㅡWhen I presented her to the mother, she refused the child. She called the baby defective and kept her sister. Ms. Gauthier said the firstborn was of satan's making, whatever that meant. I had no choice. ㅡI took her and gave her to my sister who was without a child as she was barren."

Ms. Gauthier later confirmed. Even her husband was unaware she had given away Cecile's twin. 

Colette's motive was evident from the moment the facts dropped. She wished to destroy the Gauthiers from within. One could suppose she felt she owed to her sister and herself. But there was Leone. One could also assume she wanted to keep the boy away from their evil clutches. Colette came off crazy, but how could one be in a family where consanguinity was tradition.

"Jonas, are you alright?" Sierra asked as she watched the man pacing in front of their bedroom window.

"I'm just unable to seize the immensity of the scandal. I can't accept that I was involved with these people. You can't believe how much I regret, even today, having spent a weekend in that villa where Cecile suffered so much trauma."

The man didn't know what to think. Never since he met Sierra had Cecile haunted his thoughts like then. He remembered how they met when she climbed into his campus bedroom window. How she instantly drew him. He sought a missing piece, and the man convinced himself he had found her at the time.

How many chances were they for two people with the same stigma to meet?

Like him, Cecile had a twin, but hers lived.

 Colette refused to accept the resemblance was a coincidence when she met Cecile. On the other hand, her sister found the idea of having a doppelganger amusing. Colette did a lot of research and confronted her adoptive mother. She even managed to gather a few strands of Cecile's hair, which revealed the truth. According to the nurse's confession, Cecile died unaware of their actual ties. 

"Jonas, you didn't know. No one could suspect this."

The man dropped on his bed, "I sat down and ate at their table. It disgusts me."