“Was that before or after you cheated?”
He looked away.
I told him he couldn’t stay and argue in front of the children.
He agreed to take them home after dinner, but I insisted we first explain that the pickup should never have happened.
We sat with Lily, Noah, and Sophie.
“That woman wasn’t supposed to take you,” Marcus said. “Even if someone knows Mommy, you must wait for Grandma or me.”
Lily’s eyes filled. “She said you knew her.”
“I do,” he admitted. “But I didn’t know she was coming.”
Sophie asked if she was in trouble.
“Absolutely not,” I told her.
After they left, I read Emily’s letter again.
At the bottom, she’d written that Victoria had copies of the documents she’d been collecting.
I wanted to know what else my daughter-in-law had been trying to say.
The next morning, I received a call from Victoria.
Her first words were, “Are the children okay?”
