ROBERT’S POV

“Excuse me?...” My mum leaned forward, her features wrinkling like I had said something abominable. “What did you just say?”

“She’s not Lily,” I repeated, making it clearer this time so they could hear me better. “She’s just some random lookalike that was hired to kill Grandpa.”

The level of shock that flew through their faces was unlike any I had ever seen before. Mum and Ginny stared at me like I was crazy, as though I had lost it entirely. Martin gazed at me with an amusingly shocking expression while Dad scoffed in disbelief.

Mum approached me almost reflexively, her expression suddenly sympathetic as she held my...