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“It’s okay, my babies. Grandma’s here. Nobody is taking anything from you ever again.”
I stood there, shaking, trying to process what had just happened.
“I’m so sorry, Rachel. I should’ve said something to him a long time ago.”
I shook my head, tears spilling down my cheeks. “You just did more for my kids than their father ever has.”
She squeezed my hand.
“They deserve better. And from now on, that’s exactly what they’re going to get.”
Meanwhile, it didn’t take long for karma to finish the remaining job. When Amanda found out that Jake had been cut out of his mother’s will, everything changed.
All those months of encouraging him to “provide more,” pushing him to fight me for every dollar, and convincing him that he deserved to take back the toys he had given his own children suddenly made sense. She had not been building a family. She had been building a bank account.
The moment she realized there would be no inheritance, her mask slipped.
Within weeks, she ended things with Jake, telling him she was not going to waste her time with a man who couldn’t secure his own future.
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