Chapter 10 - Mara and I Returned to the Restaurant Where I First Met Our Sons—And She Finally Told Me Why She Never Stopped Loving MeWe returned to the restaurant.
Same restroom.
Same sinks.
Same mirror.
The boys were taller now.
Still brushed their hair backward.
All four.
I laughed.
Mara looked at me.
“What's funny?”
“Nothing.”
“You're remembering.”
“Yes.”
She smiled.
“They remember too.”
We sat at a table.
I asked:
“Why didn't you move on?”
Mara stared.
“I tried.”
“How many times?”
“None.”
I laughed.
She smiled.
“You were always impossible.”
“Then why?”
“Because I knew you didn't abandon me.”
I stared.
“How?”
“My mother told me.”
“What did she know?”
“She knew your mother.”
The network.
The lies.
The manipulation.
Everything.
We had both been victims.
She had loved me.
I had loved her.
And someone had stolen six years.
I reached across the table.
“Can we stop losing time?”
May you like
She smiled.
“Yes.”
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Chapter 11 - The Four Boys Asked Me to Marry Their Mother—Not Because They Needed a Father, but Because They Wanted Us to Stop Losing TimeThe boys planned it.
Chapter 12 - The Wedding Took Place in the Same Conservatory Where I Was Supposed to Propose to Brielle—But This Time There Was No Business DealThe same conservatory.
Chapter 13 - Six Years After Four Boys Were Hidden From Me, They Began Calling Our New House Home—And I Finally Learned What Being a Father Actually MeantFatherhood wasn't about money.
Chapter 14 - When the Boys Turned Eighteen, They Refused Their Inheritance and Gave the Moretti Fortune to Families Their Grandfather Had HurtThe four boys made a decision.
Chapter 15 - The Four Six-Year-Old Boys Who Walked Out of a Restaurant Bathroom Wearing My Face Eventually Became the Men Who Gave Me Back Six Years of Love — THE ENDSometimes I still think about that day.
