Chapter 11 - CECELIA’S FIRST APOLOGY FAILEDCecelia wrote Mia a letter.
The first began:
I’m sorry circumstances became so complicated.
Rejected.
Second:
I believed you were safer away from the Whitmore family.
Still an excuse.
Months later, after legal proceedings and therapy, another letter came.
I knew you survived the fire.
Accurate.
I helped Denise hide you because your survival threatened the trust structure my father had manipulated.
Harder.
Then:
Later, I told myself exposing the truth would destroy too many lives. What I meant was it would destroy the life I had built around a lie.
Good.
Finally:
At the restaurant, I grabbed and humiliated you because I saw you as someone beneath me before I recognized you as someone who could expose me. Both attitudes were wrong.
That sentence mattered most.
Mia read it years later.
May you like
She did not reply.
No obligation.
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