I reached out to the letter,s. but my fingers were shaking so hard that I couldn’t get it. Luke noticed and gently pushed the glass of water towards me, while Matteo sat in the chair to my right.

But he was writing something else.

“Over time, I understood that children’s emotional stability could not only be measured by income, the size of the home, or the degree of kinship. Paola Moretti had offered them a home and an affective continuity that it would not have been right to ignore.”

I’ve reread the sentence three times.

Cristina had never told me anything like that.

Did she write that?

“Yes,” Luke replied. And he said he regrets the way he treated you.

I’ve remembered all our discussions since.

The way he told me I didn’t have enough money.
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The way he asked me if I was ready to sacrifice my life for two children who weren’t mine.

And the way, one afternoon, he had told me that maybe I would have better let them go before they got more attached to me.
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