LUCY POV
No one can ever truly understand the pain of watching their daughter grow up from a distance. Watching her call another woman 'mother.' Watching her run to another for kisses to her boo-boos, and teaching her to ride her bike, and drive her first car. Celebrating those milestone moments.
No one! Absolutely no one would understand the silent tears you have to hold within during every evening phone call when the woman moonlighting as your daughter's mother tells you everything your precious little girl got up to that day.
My heart ached for what we couldn’t safely possess.
Evelyn was the only person I would have ever trusted with Rio’s life and safety, but that didn’t ease the pain I endured knowing that I could never hear those words I prayed to hear. “Mommy!”
Boys are differ
