I can’t go on like this. Ava is growing up. She asks me why you don’t stay. I don’t know what to tell her anymore. You have to choose. Please, don’t leave me to raise her alone while you go back to your life.
C.”
I opened another one.
“Daniel,
I know you think you’re protecting everyone, but you’re hurting us. If you loved me, you wouldn’t keep going back. Leave her. Stay with us. Ava deserves it. Please.
The letters floated before my eyes as my eyes filled with tears.
I searched the chest again until I found one written in Daniel’s own handwriting.
In this letter, he was writing to a woman named Caroline. He said he wouldn’t leave me or the children, that he loved us. He also said that he cared about Ava and would continue to provide for her, but that he couldn’t offer Caroline the life she wanted.
I clutched the letter to my chest.
He had not abandoned us.
But he had lived a lie every day.
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