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Harper walked into the room a moment later. She blinked at the sight of me and the twins, gasping.

 

“What happened to Tessa and Milo?” she breathed, all wide-eyed innocence.

 

“You don’t know?”

 

“Why would I know? Taking care of Tessa and Milo isn’t my responsibility.” She curled her hand against Elias’s chest. “Babe, do you know what happened?”

 

Elias looked between us, confused and impatient. “Noa’s been screaming about the twins being locked at the basement.”

 

Harper gasped again, “Oh! My… I had noticed the twins had grow to like playing in the basement. The maid told me sometimes they would even go to the basement and play there for a whole day.”

 

Beside me, Tessa squeezed my hand tight, her small fingers trembling. She shook her head frantically. “Mommy, we didn’t—”

 

“Stop lying, Harper,” I snapped.

 

Harper’s smile froze in place.

 

“You ordered the maids to lock them in the basement,” I said, my voice razor-sharp. “You made them eat garbage. You threatened to have them thrown out if they even stepped outside. Children don’t lie about things like that.”

 

Harper widened her eyes, “I would never! Why would I lock them away?”

 

She turned to Tessa with a soft, sugary voice. “Tessa, sweetheart, you don’t hate me, do you?”

 

Tessa flinched under Harper’s gaze, instinctively stepping behind me. “No, I don’t.”

 

Harper pounced. “Then why would you lie to your mom? I never locked you up, darling. Never.”

 

I slid my arm around Tessa, shielding her from Harper’s poisonous reach. “Enough,”

 

Tessa’s little body shook against me, her eyes darting toward the ruined wedding photo still lying shattered on the floor. Harper followed her gaze, clutching her hands over her mouth.

 

“Our wedding photo!” she gasped. “What happened?”

 

I tilted my head. “Oh, that? I threw it in the trash. Didn’t like the look of someone else’s memories cluttering up my bedroom.”

 

Harper’s face twisted, “First you accuse me of abusing children, then you tear apart my life here? Do you hate me that much, Noa?”

 

She spun dramatically like she was about to faint, milking the moment for every ounce of pity.

 

Elias caught her, pulling her into his arms. “Don’t let them get to you, Harper. I know you’re innocent.”

 

Then, to my horror, he yanked Tessa away from me. And slapped her hard across the back.

 

He hissed. “How did I raise you to be like this? Lying about people who care for you?”

 

I snatched her back, clutching her close to my chest. “Don’t you touch her.”

 

“You disgust me, Elias,” I spat. “You’d hit your own daughter because some conniving bitch bats her eyelashes at you? Open your damn eyes!”

 

Elias raised his voice, shouting back at me. “Oh, right. You’re perfect, aren’t you, Noa? Did you teach our daughter to lie? Because that sounded like something you would have done.”

 

He continued, ”You knew after my nephew died, Harper had no one. You knew she depended on me. And still—you team up with our daughter and son to lie about her? Try to drive her out?”

 

Harper broke away from his arms with a sob, running dramatically out of the room. “It’s all my fault.”

 

Elias chased after her without a second thought.

 

Tessa tugged on my sleeve, her little face crumpled with worry. “Mommy,” she whispered, “does Daddy hate me and Milo? Why won’t he believe us?”

 

Her big watery eyes looked up at me, and I swear it felt like someone had driven a thousand knives into my heart.

 

I pulled both of them into my arms and hugged them fiercely. “No, sweetheart. No. You are the smartest, kindest, most amazing little girl in the world. And Milo—you are the sweetest, strongest, most wonderful boy a mommy could ever ask for. You did nothing wrong. Nothing.”

 

“Mommy…” Milo’s hoarse little voice broke free at last. His hollow gaze filled with tears in a blink.

 

“There, there,” I whispered, cradling them closer. “Don’t cry, babies. I’ll get you out of here. We’ll live together, just us three, and be happy again. I promise.”

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