I stared at her, stunned. “Is that even confirmed?”

Talia shook her head. “It’s just gossip, but people say he’s an illegitimate child. Madam Walker couldn’t get pregnant for years, so the Walker family kept the mother out of it and took the kid. They brought Sean back and raised him as a Walker.”

“Making the wife raise her husband’s child from another woman… that’s brutal for Madam Walker.”

Very few women could swallow something ...