And so Abigail told her family everything they needed to know.
Her voice trembled at first, breaking under the weight of her own shame. She told them how she had believed that Kai loved her. How she had allowed herself to fall in love with a man she had barely known, only to find out too late that she had been nothing but a means to an end. She blamed herself for being naive, for giving her heart so recklessly.
She told them the truth that Kai had used her merely as a womb for the child he wanted so desperately...a child that wasn’t even hers, but the frozen remnant of his dead wife’s legacy. She told them how he had wrapped his lies in tenderness, disguising manipulation with the illusion of love, all while she clung to the hope of finally becoming a mother.
And when her words finally
