Sophia's POV
Lena saw my face change.
"What," she said.
I turned the phone toward her.
She read it and went very still in the specific way of someone whose body understood something before their mind caught up with it.
"She can't be here," Lena said. Quiet and tight. "Nobody told her. How does she know."
"Mrs. Park," Damien said. He was already on his phone. "She's been feeding information to everyone. Including Diana."
"I thought she was protecting me," Lena said.
"She was," I said. "Both things can be true. She protected you and she told Diana because she decided Diana deserved to know her daughter was alive." I looked at Lena steadily. "That's not a betrayal. That's someone who ran out of reasons to keep two people apart."
Lena looked at the door.
"I'm not ready," she said.
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