Regina’s POVI hadn’t meant to say it.The words had ripped from me like a dam breaking, raw and unpolished, thrown into the night air for everyone to hear, my father, Maxwell, the children.I hadn’t planned on telling it all in front of Father, not then, not like that. But his voice, his relentless accusations, had clawed at something deep inside me. And when he looked at Maxwell as if he were the devil himself, I broke.I told the truth.And the moment the truth was out, silence fell, jagged and heavy.Maxwell didn’t say another word after my father stormed off. He only looked at me, looked through me, with eyes that carried too much. Regret, maybe. Pain, definitely. I wanted to say something, anything, to soften the air between us, but the children were there.So he gathered Ivan’s hand in his, muttering something about going back to his estate. Ivan, unusually subdued, nodded without protest. He didn’t even look back at Mia.And then they were gone.The house grew still, except fo
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