Leah
I cried in the parking garage until my eyes burned and my chest hurt.
Then I stopped because school pickup was coming, and motherhood did not pause because you had just found out your whole life had been built on a lie.
Ruth was not my mother.
Maeve Callaghan was.
Liam was my brother.
Edward had taken me.
Edward had left him.
I gripped the steering wheel until my fingers ached.
Then my phone buzzed.
Olivia.
I stared at her name for three rings before I answered.
“Hi,” I said.
There was a pause.
“Nope,” Olivia said. “Absolutely not. Where are you?”
I closed my eyes.
“In my car.”
“Where is your car?”
“Uptown.”
Another pause.
“Leah.”
The way she said my name almost broke me again.
“I went to see Liam,” I said.
Olivia went quiet.
I heard a door close on her end, th
