I Married My Husband in the House He Shared with His Late Wife – but on Our Wedding Night, I Found a Letter Taped Inside My Nightstand

It sent a chill down my spine.

I crouched beside her.

“Honey… what’s Mommy holding here?”

Mia didn’t answer.

I pointed to the X over her stick-figure mouth. “What about this? Does this little girl have something she can’t say?”

“It’s a secret.”

My chest tightened.

“It looks like this secret makes her sad… did you know that a secret that makes you feel bad isn’t a secret you should have to keep? Not ever.”

Mia looked at me with tears in her eyes. “But Daddy said not to tell.

He said it makes his heart hurt. But… it makes mine hurt too.”

Oh, God. Mia knew… Whatever Matthew was hiding from me, Mia knew what it was.

I didn’t really know how to tackle this situation, but I had to do something, so I put my arms around Mia and held her close.

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