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Everything Brax had believed was wrong.
All these years, he’d been convinced Mia had left him. Abandoned the life they’d been building because he hadn’t been enough. He’d hated her for that. Hated her for reminding him of the mother who’d seen him as an inconvenient afterthought. For showing him that no matter how hard he worked, how much he loved, something else would always be more important. For his mother, it had been drugs. For Mia… He’d never known what was more important than him. And he’d spent years rejecting her overtures because he was afraid of the answer.
Now he had the truth, and he didn’t know how to cope with it.
He’d left her. After all his vows to love and protect her, he’d left her.
She wasn’t without fault. She should’ve told him all her history before. After the
