Rebecca spilled every lie and every scheme without holding anything back.
The three men were stunned into silence, their faces pale with the shock of total revelation.
Sebastian was the first to break. With a ragged sound, his knees buckled, and he crumpled to the floor, his proud composure dissolving into raw, open sobs as he began to beg. "Elara, I'm so sorry. Rebecca tricked all of us. Can you forgive me?"
The other two men followed, scrambling to apologize and plead for mercy.
As I watched their over-the-top displays of regret, a sharp pain twisted in my heart. "It's too late. A simple 'sorry' fixes nothing. My daughter, my unborn baby, and Grandma are gone forever. They're never coming back."
The words tore from me, raw and bleeding, each syllable a shard of glass scraping from m
