Rejected while pregnant - My Ex husband begged too late
She’d stood at her nursery wall and looked at two names and the word and between them and felt, for once, entirely unafraid of her own future.
Her phone rang at seven. Not Damian. Her mother.
“You looked beautiful,” Camila said, from the kitchen three doors down, because Camila Reyes had not left the country since the reunion, had instead folded herself quietly into Elena’s life with the patience of a woman who understood exactly how much time she still owed. “I watched the coverage twice.”
“You didn’t have to watch it once.” She said
“I wanted to see my daughter become someone the world takes seriously.” A pause, warm and a little unsteady. “Your father would have been unbearable about it.