My Fiancée Locked My Daughter Away for Her Late Mother’s Necklace—Then I Canceled the Wedding.
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Chapter 17 / 27
Chapter 17 - THE FIRST NIGHT HOME
Grace slept in my bed for a week.
The locket remained under her pajama shirt.
Every night she checked.
“Still?”
“Still.”
On the fourth night:
“New mommy?”
“No.”
“Never?”
Children ask permanent questions when adults have made temporary life unsafe.
“I don’t know what happens years from now.”
She frowned.
Then:
“No one takes Mommy.”
May you like
“No one.”
That answer I could give.
