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I gave Mia Walsh a complicated look. This woman was my personal kryptonite.

“I guess I’m just too charming,” Mia said, preening. But when she turned and saw me holding the child, she shrieked, “Linda, whose kid is that?”

Owen frantically tried to explain to her. “He’s my son. Mia, just let me explain.”

Mia looked like she’d been struck by lightning, suddenly clutching her chest.

“Owen, you had a child with her behind my back? You could have refused to marry me, but why would you betray me like this?”

“Is that why you would never touch me? Because of them?”

Seeing how devastated she was, Owen rushed over to comfort her. “Mia, it’s not what you think. This was before we got married.”

“She was terrified of being poor and didn’t want to lose me, so she had the kid to trap me. I only just found out about it today.”

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Since talking was getting us nowhere, I decided to let him see the truth for himself. Maybe then he’d finally drop it.

“Mommy, what took you so long today?”

Tim stretched out his arms and ran toward me with a sweet smile.

“I had to go back to our old place to grab a few things. Sorry I kept you waiting, Tim. How about I make it up to you with some fries later?”

“Okay!” My son hugged me, overjoyed.

Owen clearly hadn’t expected me to actually come back with a child in tow.

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The day before our engagement party, my rich-kid boyfriend, Owen Mason, seemed a million miles away while we were out shopping.

I bought a five-dollar fried chicken sandwich from a street vendor and offered him a bite. He smacked it out of my hand and onto the ground, his face contorted with rage.

“Linda, the Masons need a matriarch who can hold her own in high society! Buying this cheap crap just embarrasses me. How do you expect my parents to ever accept you?”

I awkwardly picked up the sandwich and threw it in the trash. For the sake of our four years of college together, I just nodded.

“You’re right.

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