James pressed his lips together, his expression grave as he gave a heavy nod.

Briony's knife slipped from her hand and clattered onto the cutting board.

"Careful!" James rushed forward and pulled her out of harm's way.

The sudden commotion startled Gwendolyn White, who quickly turned off the stove and spun around to look at Briony.

Seeing Briony's stricken face, Gwendolyn frowned. "What's wrong?"

Briony's complexion was ashen, her eyes rimmed red.

Rosita had killed her son.

And what had she just done?

She had just held that child in her arms...

Briony closed her eyes, trying to steady her emotions. "Have Garry take the boy and leave. Right now."

She knew the child was innocent.

But his mother was the one who had killed her son.

Gwendolyn steadied Briony and called out to James, "Why are you standing there? Go, now!"

James let out a weary sigh and walked out of the kitchen-nearly colliding with Garry in the hallway.

when James stopped

son with Rosita. She'll never forgive

his gaze, his expression unreadable. "Mario is my

to fool us. You've been with Rosita for four years. The tabloids have been full of stories about her giving

Irwin. She had to have

James froze.

Rosita can't have children?

mother died in childbirth," Garry said, glancing past James toward the kitchen. "I married Rosita so Mario could have a

spoke loudly enough that Briony and Gwendolyn could

both women

hand. "As long as he isn't Rosita's

her lips together,

had little affection for Garry, but little Mario's situation tugged at

Briony just couldn't

of respect for Carney, she felt it wasn't her place to force

a bottle of whiskey and invited

and Carney was insistent, he

and little Mario sat side by side in

divided up their food into child-sized bowls and tied on their bibs, then left

encouraging her to eat on her own since she

was more

Nina spear a piece of beef with her fork and pop it into her

Her baby teeth were all healthy, and she chewed confidently-bite of food, bite of vegetables, another

Mario couldn't take his

and smiled gently at him. "Look at how well Little Nina eats. Maybe you could

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