My husband took my stepdaughter to spend christmas with his ex and said i wasn’t her real mother… so i agreed to the divorce, accepted my promotion, and vanished before they returned

her grip on the phone. “Really?”

“He said my therapist thinks it would be good.”

Mariana closed her eyes.

The therapist.

The one she had located, scheduled, and paid for before leaving because she knew Camila would need a neutral voice when the adults around her failed.

“That sounds wonderful,” Mariana said.

Camila brightened immediately. “Do I really have continue reading …