Valeria’s POV“I'm so sorry for everything you had to go through,” I whispered brokenly, my voice barely recognizable even to my own ears. “This whole time I thought you'd abandoned me and Dad but… but you were actually… in hell.”My chest tightened so painfully it felt like something sharp had lodged itself between my ribs. I could barely breathe around the horror clawing its way through me. Every image from that file kept flashing through my mind over and over again. The restraints. The burns. The bruises. The reports documenting her suffering so clinically, as though she wasn't a human being but some failed experiment trapped inside a cage.I stared at the woman in front of me, at my mother, and suddenly all I could see was twenty-five years of unimaginable pain.“Why would Dad do that to you?” I asked shakily. “I thought he loved you. What kind of person does that to anyone? He ruined your life and he's been lying to me this whole time.”Fresh tears spilled down my cheeks despite
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