I couldn’t speak.
Sixteen years of sacrifice pressed down on my chest.
Then I looked at them—my boys, scared and confused.
“Boys,” I said. “Look at me.”
They did.
“I would burn the entire education board to the ground before I let that man own us. Do you really think I’d keep your father from you? HE left. Not me.”
Something shifted in Liam’s eyes.
“Mom… then what do we do?”
“We agree,” I said. “And then we expose him.”
