My New Wife’s Seven-Year-Old Daughter Always Cried When We Were Alone — And My Wife Brushed It Off As Nothing More Than Hatred

I built a fort out of blankets in the living room. Inside that soft little cave, she whispered, “Ethan?”

“Yeah?”

“Can someone be two people?”

“What do you mean?”

“Like a mom who buys you dresses, but also a mom who makes you bite the rabbit?”

My throat tightened. “Some people have shadows inside them. But that doesn’t mean the shadow gets to hurt you.”

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