joy quickly turned to humiliation. Sophie’s other grandmother, Marianne, greeted him with cold contempt and attempted to have him removed, lashing out with sharp words that cut deeper than she knew. In the heated exchange that followed, a long-buried truth came to light: Marianne had been intercepting letters between Frank and Emily for years, deliberately keeping them apart with lies and manipulation. Her betrayal stunned everyone. The revelation shattered the wall of pain between father and daughter. Emily, overwhelmed by the truth and years of suppressed emotion,
embraced Frank in tears. Sophie looked on, wide-eyed, as her world shifted. She was Frank’s granddaughter—the connection neither had known but had somehow always felt. In the days that followed, the piano Frank had purchased was delivered to Sophie’s home. Its arrival was more than a gift; it was a symbol of healing, of love rediscovered, and of the time they still had ahead—a new beginning for a family once broken, now finding its way back to each other.