She was the young woman who had sat beside me.
The one who had told me the babies needed someone.
“I’m also the mother of those twins you took from the plane,” she added casually.
Behind me, Ethan and Sophie had appeared halfway down the staircase.
They froze when they heard her words.
“You abandoned them,” I said, my voice tight.
Alicia shrugged lightly.
“I was 23,” she said. “Terrified. Drowning in responsibilities I wasn’t ready for.”
She gestured toward the house.
“I saw you grieving. I thought you needed them as much as they needed someone. So I made a choice.”
“You set me up,” I whispered.
“I gave them a better life than I ever could have,” she replied.
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