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

held her and rocked her gently, just as she had years earlier when nightmares woke her in the middle of the night. Downstairs, Alexander heard the crying and came upstairs irritated.

“What happened?” he demanded from the doorway.

Camila turned toward him with a fury Mariana had never witnessed before.

“You’re making her leave!”

Alexander froze.

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