Pregnant Wife Is Attacked With a Steel Ladle While Her Husband Smiles—Then Her Hidden Phone Sends an SOS to Her Lawyer Sister
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Chapter 24 - ETHAN’S APOLOGY TO THE CHILDRENEthan apologized to Mia first.
Through a therapist.
“I should have stopped what was happening.”
Mia asked:
“Why didn’t you?”
He paused.
Then answered:
“I was angry at Mom.”
“Did you want her hurt?”
“I didn’t think I did before it happened.”
Mia stared.
“After?”
Ethan cried.
“I was so angry that for a few seconds I cared more about being right than helping her. That was wrong.”
That was the first version I believed.
Not:
nervous smile.
Not:
I froze.
Not:
both women were fighting.
He had benefited emotionally from watching someone else express his anger.
Ugly truth.
Clean enough for healing.
Mia said:
“I don’t like that.”
“You shouldn’t.”
May you like
No request for forgiveness.
Good.
