Eight months after our divorce, my ex-husband invited me to his wedding and mocked me for “not giving him a family”—while I lay in a hospital bed beside the baby he never knew existed.

stopped tuning up.

I adjusted my black dress and smiled.

“Mine.”

Santiago let out a dry laugh.

“Impossible.”

“Why is it impossible?”

His face tensed. Deep down, he knew the answer, but he didn’t want to say it in front of everyone. Because to him, I was “the broken one,” “the one who couldn’t,” “the shame of the Aranda family.”

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