part 2 The man who spent eleven years blaming me for our childlessness threw me out of our home9-008v

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“Rebecca.”

Her eyes dropped to the children.

Emotion crossed her face, but it was not simple. Wonder, regret, hunger, calculation. Perhaps all of them.

“My beautiful grandchildren,” she said, reaching toward Lucia.

Lucia stepped behind my leg.

Rebecca’s hand stopped in midair.

“They need a moment,” I said.

Her smile tightened.

“Of course.”

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