TERESA

I had never told the horrors and the abandonment I went through. But something really strange is happening to me with Dorothea. I felt her so close that I felt like I could tell her anything.

Especially being the mother of the man I felt I loved with all my being. Maybe I had a moral duty to this woman not to have any secrets. But what about Bash? Mostly, he knew my story, but my feelings are much more intense and shocking than he could have imagined.

Maybe in the depths of my soul, I ...