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Chapter 2: The Demand

I handed Noah safely to my sister, who had just rushed in from the kitchen.

Then I turned and slapped Diane across the face.

The whole room went silent.

Diane stared at me with one hand against her cheek.

“You hit me?”

“You will never touch my child like that again.”

That was when my husband, Ryan, came through the front door.

His mother immediately started crying.

“Ryan, she attacked me!”

I waited for him to ask about Noah.

He didn’t.

Instead, he walked straight toward me.

“Apologize to my mother.”

I actually thought I had heard him wrong.

“Ryan, she threw our baby down because he was crying.”

His expression barely changed.

“She was frustrated, Emily.”

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I felt colder than I had ever felt in my life.

Diane suddenly smiled behind him, thinking she had won.

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