Eighteen Years a Mother, One Day a Fool ,Then I Ruled Them AllChapter 1
Ten years ago, my husband Nico Ferraro convinced me to get a hysterectomy so we could live a child-free life together. I gave up my ability to have children for him, and I never looked back.
Not until the day he came home with a pair of adopted twins and asked me to raise them as my own.
I agreed. And from that moment on, I devoted myself to those kids like they were my flesh and blood. I changed every diaper, packed every lunch, stayed up all night through every fever. Eighteen years later, they got accepted into Princeton and Yale. I was so proud I could've burst.
At their college send-off at the Family estate, Nico handed me a document, a territorial deed transfer. He wanted me to sign everything over to the twins.
I agreed without hesitation. Just as I reached for the pen, my mom pulled me aside, worry etched all over her face. "Seraphina, you don't even know where those kids came from. Are you really going to sign everything over to them? Keep something for yourself, at least."
"Don't worry, Mom. Everything's going to be okay," I said softly.
But she broke down, dropping to her knees and begging me not to be so naive. When my father saw her crying and realized I still planned to go through with it, he stormed in, slapped me across the face and shouted that I was a disgrace to the Family.
Still, I signed.
Nico's face lit up with satisfaction. Then, without a shred of shame, he turned and wrapped his arm around another woman's waist. She stepped forward, eyes smug, and tossed a set of severance papers in my face.
"Thank you for taking care of Nico and the kids all these years," she said. "But now it's time for you to step aside. It's time for our family to be whole again."
I looked at her, my expression calm, my voice steady.
"Fine."
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