Emily’s POV

She looked at me like she had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

There was no warmth in her face at all. No tears and no sign of the mother who had made some impossible choice and spent years regretting it.

She was way too calm for my liking, as if she had gone over this moment in her head so many times that finally standing in front of me didn’t feel real anymore. It was just something she had planned for and was now carrying out.

I stood there without ...