Madeline:
I maintained eye contact with Baxter, wishing he would realize that I wasn’t falling for his tricks anymore.
“No. All this mess started because of you,” I hissed, noticing how the confidence in his eyes began to fade.
“I’m telling you, I didn’t know,” he kept repeating, insisting that he was clueless, saying the same excuses over and over again. I had heard them all before.
“Well, that’s because you didn’t believe me. And look what happened. You got yourself fooled, and you almost cost me so much,” I hissed again.
Then I noticed Graham shifting his weight from one leg to the other.
“What does that even mean? Even if they prove the children are ours, it’s not like we’re going to take them away from you. Why are you making such a big deal out of it?” he complained.
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