I knew my mother-in-law hated me, but I never thought she would hide shrimp in my food while I was pregnant. When my throat closed and I grabbed my belly, Daniel snapped, “Stop em:bar:rassing my mother.”

followed after Margaret tried paying Marco to leave the country. Lena uncovered that too.

Daniel begged me to meet him privately one last time.

I agreed once.

He looked thinner, older, ruined. “Claire, I didn’t know.”

“But I told you,” I replied. “At the dinner table. In the ambulance. At the hospital. I told you, and every time, you chose her.”

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