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Then she dropped the bomb.
“I’m also the mother of those twins you took from the plane,” she said casually. “I’ve come to see my children.”
Ethan and Sophie had just come downstairs for breakfast. They froze on the bottom step.
I motioned for them to stay calm, but my heart was pounding.
“You abandoned them,” I replied. “You left them alone on a plane when they were babies.”
Alicia’s expression didn’t change. “I was 23 years old and terrified. I’d just gotten the opportunity of a lifetime, a job offer that could change my future. I had twin infants I never planned for, and I was drowning.”
She looked at the twins without a trace of shame.
“You left them alone
