While We Were Opening Christmas Gifts, My 5-Year-Old Yelled, ‘Yes! The Other Mom Kept Her Promise!’ – After a Long Pause, My Husband Finally Spoke

He shook his head slowly. “I made a huge mistake.”

“She cried.

She… said she’d fallen in love with me. I told her she should never come back, but…” He looked at me with fear in his eyes. “I see now that it was the wrong thing to say because that gift Simon opened… I didn’t put it under the tree.”

“What are you talking about, Mike?”

The full weight of it hit me then: Megan had been in our house without us knowing.

While we were sleeping, she’d walked through our rooms, touched our things, and placed that gift under our tree like she had every right to be part of our family.

What else might she have done while she was in our house?

Simon entered the room then.

One look at his face told me he’d been listening to us from the other side of the door.

“Mom, is the other mom bad?”

I kneeled in front of him. “She’s… confused, sweetie.”

What else could I say? How do you explain to a five-year-old that someone he trusted was dangerous?

He frowned.

Mike and I looked at each other in horror.

A key… That’s how she’d gotten into our house! She’d asked for a key, and Simon had given it to her.

And that wasn’t all.

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