Selene: It’s been three hours since I told Maximus everything. How Maya was the one behind our children’s disappearance, and how Nelly had been working with Jess to have us killed. Me and the kids. He was in complete disbelief. When Anna and Asher got home from school, the first thing they did was run around the house, calling for Nelly. My chest tightened. How do I explain to them that the woman they adored..the one who tucked them in at night, played hide-and-seek with them, and made them laugh…was the same woman who orchestrated their kidnapping? The same one who’s been trying to end my life for months? How do you even begin to say something like that? It hit my mom the hardest. She’s known Nelly for years, loved her like one of her own. To find out it was all a lie... it’s been cr