Chapter 14 - On My Daughters' Tenth Birthday, Sloan Gave Me the One Gift I Never Expected—A Photograph From the Day I First Met WillaThe photograph showed me standing beside Willa's crib.

I was terrified.
Sloan had taken it secretly.
On the back she had written:
The day he realized he had something more important than power.
I looked at her.
“You kept this?”
“For ten years.”
I smiled.
“I love you.”
“I know.”
The girls hugged us.
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And for the first time, I realized the empire I'd spent my life building wasn't the one that mattered.
This was.