Chapter 7 - The Woman I Blamed for Three Years Had Actually Been Protecting My SonIsabella returned.
She told me everything she had done.
She had made terrible choices.
She had lied.
She had disappeared.
But she had never stopped protecting Mateo.
Nico had threatened to kill him.
She had been forced to cooperate.
When she couldn't save him openly, she saved him secretly.
I wanted to hate her.
But I couldn't.
Because she had carried the same grief I had.
Only hers had been mixed with fear.
We sat together that night.
Two parents who had spent three years mourning a son who had been alive.
Mateo entered the room.
“Mom?”
Isabella collapsed into tears.
He hugged her.
I watched them.
For the first time, I understood that sometimes people make unforgivable choices because they believe there is no other way.
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But forgiveness would not erase the past.
It would only allow us to survive it.
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