Rebecca
She rattled off a number I wasn’t supposed to hear. She told me to call him and ask if a phone had been handed in. She said he works the floor, and my best option would be to speak to him. I had hoped she would tell me what days Fallon might come in, so I could find a way to call back there, not hand me the number of my first and only love.
If Mikhail ever found out, if he ever even suspected I was trying to find someone from before him, it’d be over. For me. For Nathan. For the girls.
Because to him, my past doesn’t exist. I told him I had no one. No family. No child. That lie has kept them all alive. He did have suspicions at first, mostly because when I was taken, it was obvious I had recently had a child. I remember how it angered him that he couldn’t sell me for a few weeks
