A Twist of Fate by Jen Bradlee

Author:Jen Bradlee [Bradlee, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-30T18:00:00+00:00

My dear Hannah,

I knew this day would come. And while I'm very glad it has, it breaks my heart all the same. You deserve answers, and I apologize I'm not there to give them to you in person.

Would you have believed me? It wasn't until I saw you with Lucian this evening that I truly believed what I'd known for years. That you and he were destined to be together.

Let me tell you one last story, my dear.

I've done many odd jobs over the years, but one in particular put me on a journey sixty-nine years in the making. Although I hadn't known it then. As a young man, my first position as a bellhop also put me in the position of errand boy.

One afternoon, I'd been tasked to sort through the archived records. They needed photographs to hang in the newly renovated lobby and gallery. Specifically, they requested I find a photograph of Lucian Lachlan.

As I searched, I found myself lost in the history of the building and the owner. Alas, I only uncovered one photograph of Lucian, which was later hung in the lobby. But it sparked a curiosity in me. So I began my journey as a historian of the Grand Lachlan Hotel.

It wasn't until I met my wife, Sarah, who appeared to me exactly as Lucian appeared to you in the Founder's Suite, that I realized the unique qualities the hotel possessed.

Sarah told me of her life and her service to Lucian and his family. I loved her with all my heart, but I found it hard to believe she had traveled through time. As the years passed, I noticed the disappearances of employees, and the strange stories surrounding the hotel mirrored my wife's tale.

I delved deeper.

Sarah helped me find information and photographs of Lucian and his family. Even several with him and his wife at the annual masquerade balls over the years. I researched him until it nearly became an unhealthy obsession.

When Sarah passed, my heart shattered, but I realized I could no longer obsess over the hotel's founder. So I retired and became the hotel's official historian.

Your parents trusted I would care for you as though you were my own child. And I did my very best to ensure I lived up to their expectations.

I remember the moment it all fell into place. I'd been sorting the hotel research I'd accumulated over the years, when I found a photograph of Lucian Lachlan with his wife, standing beside the hotel fountain in their finery.

You walked in at that moment, and the resemblance was eerie. I turned the photograph over to glance at the name and date. Lucian Lachlan and wife, Hannah, December 1899.

How could my then nineteen-year-old Hannah be in this photograph with Lucian?

I realized Sarah had told me the truth. And all the times she spoke of Lucian's Hannah, she was speaking about you. My heart ached, because I knew I would lose you, although I had no idea when.

Then I found something Sarah had hidden away in her trunk.

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