Weeks later, they told us Livia had contacted them.

pregnant, and crying on my porch. I had every reason to close the door because of you. But she wasn’t you. So I opened it.”

“You should have called me.”

“She begged me not to.”

“And you listened?”

“Yes,” Natalie said. “Because someone needed to.”

Then Mitchell appeared behind her with a baby bottle in his hand.

For eleven months, I had turned him into a villain.

But he only looked tired.

“I asked her to call you,” he said.

“Then why didn’t you?”

“Because I married Livia. I don’t