Trading My Baby For Your Lies

When Connor cheated on me with my closest friend, Alyssa, my mother stormed straight into his corporate office to tear her apart. It ended in catastrophe.

Alyssa miscarried. My mother was arrested on the spot, facing felony assault charges and years behind bars.

The day the deputies handcuffed her—my timid, fragile mother, who had always jumped at thunder—she didn't shed a single tear.

"I don’t regret a thing," she told me through the partition before they took her away. "As long as you get your life back, I’ll do whatever it takes."