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ISABELLA POV

Eva’s sobs echoed in my head long after she’d fallen asleep.

The sound of her small body shaking in my arms, the way her little voice had broken when she asked me if she was “bad” for making people talk, it gutted me. My daughter, my bright and innocent child, was already carrying the weight of my mistakes.

And I couldn’t breathe.

I sat in Xavier’s study the next morning, staring at the neat pile of legal documents his lawyers had drawn up. Words like custody, petition, and full parental rights stared back at me, sharp as knives. My lawyer had already called twice, eager for updates. But when I picked up the phone, my hand trembled too much to dial back.

What was I doing?

Dragging Eva into a war, letting her be paraded in front of strangers who would dissect her very existence like a specimen. She didn’t deserve that. None of this was for her.

It was for me.

Or worse because Xavier wanted it.

The realization made guilt rise in my throat. So I did the only thing that felt
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