It Was Always Her

Valerie’s POV

Maddox's hurtful words played over and over in my head. He couldn’t mean that…He couldn’t. A mother could survive anything except hearing her child wish she had never been his.

Hadley moved. Of course she did.

She crossed the room to him without hesitation, without permission, without a single glance in my direction, and wrapped her arms around my son like it was the most natural thi