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

Mariana could barely breathe.

Oscar watched quietly. “I’m sorry.”

Mariana closed the folder. “They were planning to take her away from me.”

“Yes.”

“Not because Renata suddenly wanted to be a mother.”

“No,” Oscar said. “Because Alexander wanted a cleaner story.”

Mariana stared toward the hotel windows where snowflakes drifted through the evening air. A month continue reading …