“We’ve been over this,” I interrupt. “You’d do it all again, just like I would.”
“That’s what you meant?” Yuri asks me, incredulous. “You’d… lie to April again?”
Even as I speak the words, something inside me howls. Something desperate to mend what’s been broken. Stop lying. Stop lying to yourself, to her, to—
But there is no fixing this. Not after what April did.
Because, if I hadn’t found them, I never would have seen my daughter again.
Yuri shakes his head frantically. “You don’t mean that.”
“All this time, I kept thinking, ‘If only I’d told her the truth.’ But do you want to know the real truth? I chose you, brother. And I was right. The second I crossed her, she took my child from me. Who knows what she would’ve done if I’d told her about your baby?”
“Nothing!” Yuri insists. “
