Bride Bianca suddenly grabbed three-year-old flower girl Emma’s dress and cut away a long section of the fabric in front of the guests.
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Chapter 14
Gregory apologized differently.
To me first.
Wrong.
I stopped him.
“Sophia.”
He stared.
“She’s the one you tried to erase.”
That word bothered him.
“I never wanted her gone.”
“No.”
I agreed.
“You wanted her peripheral.”
More precise.
That landed.
He eventually spoke to her.
Admitted he saw pregnancy as opening.
Admitted he interpreted my age as opportunity.
Admitted the wedding photographs were designed to create assumptions I had never approved.
Sophia asked one question.
“If my second child had been a girl, would you have thought I mattered even less?”
May you like
Gregory could not answer quickly.
That was answer enough.
