As Big Girl Monroe spoke, Heath Hale and Zoe Sawyer heard a story where everyone was the villain.
The story began with a cliché: the classic switched-at-birth trope common in novels.
Big Girl Monroe's biological parents were a wealthy, loving couple in their village. However, the mother suffered complications during childbirth that left her unable to have any more children, making their daughter their one and only.
Chloe Monroe's father, meanwhile, was a distant cousin of Big Girl Monroe's father, and her mother was also a cousin of Big Girl Monroe's mother.
The two cousins marrying into the same extended family was the talk of the village. The two families were close, and as it happened, both women were pregnant and gave birth on the very same day.
