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

loved. I cried for the child inside me, arriving into a world already tangled with secrets. I cried for Elena, the mother I had never known, and for Helen, the mother who had raised me while hiding the truth.

Gabriel moved from his chair to the one beside mine.

“May I?” he asked.

I nodded.

He took my hand carefully, like it was something fragile.

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