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44 "“Mom, please don’t bring the baby home,” my nine-year-old daughter whispered, refusing to look at her newborn brother. I was resting in a Dallas maternity room after a long delivery, too exhausted to understand why she was holding the new tablet her father had given her as though it contained something she could barely carry alone. “Lily, what’s wrong?” I asked. She didn’t answer. She simply unlocked the screen, opened a recording, and pressed play. The conversation between my husband and his coworker explained why Lily was afraid of our house—and why Daniel had been so eager to keep me away from home.
39 "I watched the only photo of my unborn baby turn to ashes because the man I loved had just announced his engagement to another woman. I believed I was erasing the last piece of a future that would never exist. But I had no idea those ashes would become the clue that sent the most feared mafia boss in America on a relentless hunt for me. What I didn't know was even more devastating—everything I thought I heard that day was a lie meant to save my life, and the child growing inside me belonged to a man who would burn down cities before letting anyone take what was his.