Alicia’s mask slipped
for just a moment.
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I’d heard enough. “Get out of my house.”
“This isn’t your decision, Margaret.” Alicia turned to the twins. “You’re adults now. Sign the papers, acknowledge me, and you’ll have more money than you’ll know what to do with.”
Her next words made my blood boil. “Or stay here playing happy family with the old woman who took you out of pity.”
Ethan’s jaw clenched. “Out of pity? She loved us when you threw us away like trash.”
“I made a difficult choice in an impossible situation,” Alicia snapped.
I couldn’t stand this any longer. I grabbed my phone and made a call that would change everything.
Her next words made my blood boil.
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My lawyer, Caroline, arrived within an hour. She was a sharp woman who’d helped me with the adoption paperwork 18 years ago. She took one look at Alicia, and her expression hardened.
She held out her hand for the envelope. “Let me see what we’re dealing with.”
