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67: What Love Costs

ผู้เขียน: Risa Mint
last update ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2025-04-30 21:03:11

Chapter 67

Mia's point of view.

The days passed like ghostly shadows crawling across the walls, slow, heavy, and heart-wrenching.

I watched my daughter shrink more and more every day as she returned from school. And I couldn’t breathe under the weight of it. The guilt, the shame, the ache, it all folded itself around my lungs like vines, choking every bit of air from me.

I’d brought Sofia back home from my mother's house. Tried to pretend like we were okay, like we could move past this. But that illusion shattered the moment she came to me that morning, fully dressed in her school uniform. Slowly, she walked to me, her tiny hands clutching my shirt, her tear-stained eyes pleading.

“Please, Mommy,” she whispered. “I don’t want to go back to school. Don’t make me go back there. Please.”

I froze, scared that I might know what her answer “Why, baby? What happened?”

Her lip quivered. “They make fun of me at school. They said... they said you and I stole Brian's daddy. That I’m the r
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