She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

He called her absence a “tragic estrangement complicated by shame.” He said she’d spent years trying to rebuild herself and now sought healing through reunification.

Healing.

You could mop a floor with words like that.

Chloe cried on cue. Not much. Just enough.

She said she’d called. Said I’d blocked her. Said I told the children she was dead.

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