asking why she left.”
“I am your mother.”
“And she is my twin.”
“You hid my grandchild from me.”
“Rose isn’t a prize you lost,” Liam said. “She is a baby Livia was afraid to bring near you.”
The room seemed to tilt beneath me.
“I loved her. I gave her everything.”
“Everything except room to disappoint you.”
John stood in the doorway, silent.
I turned to him.
“Tell him I only wanted to protect her.”
John looked down at the letters.
“Camila,” he said quietly, “sometimes you don’t give
