I WAS FITTING A SUIT FOR CHICAGO’S MOST FEARED MAFIA BOSS WHEN HE ASKED IF I HAD A BOYFRIEND
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Chapter 11 - My Mother Finally Revealed Why She Chose My Father’s Lie Over the Truth Seven Years Before I Was BornMy mother gave me one final journal.
My biological father had written it.
The first line:
Lena,
I chose the lie because the truth would get you killed.
He described the Circle.
The threats.
The betrayals.
The night my mother escaped.
The night my grandfather hid the ledger.
The night Nathan became the Keeper.
I cried.
But one page mattered most.
I never expected my daughter to forgive me.
I only wanted her to live.
I closed the journal.
My mother sat beside me.
“Do you forgive him?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because he was trying to give me a future.”
She nodded.
“And your father?”
I thought of the man who raised me.
“I forgive him too.”
“Even though he lied?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because I don't want fear to be my inheritance.”
May you like
She smiled.
That sentence became my life.
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