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Emily knotted her fingers together until they were bloodless. This was the difficult part. Now she had to tell Jackson what she’d done.

“I was so scared,” she began in a trembling voice. “I tried and tried to reach you. Then my mother found out I was pregnant and she was furious at my stupidity. It was pure hell, and I didn’t know what to do. In the end, I did what my parents wanted.”

“What was that?”

“I—I gave her up for adoption.”

“We had a daughter?” he said in a hoarse voice.

“Yes, but I never saw her. I only heard her crying. I asked to hold her but they wouldn’t let me.”

He got to his feet, his body rigid. “You gave our daughter to strangers? How could you do something like that?”

“I was seventeen, alone and scared!”

“You just wanted to get rid of it as fast as possible so you could get on with your life, your big career.”

Emily rose to her feet, her eyes huge with the emotions that consumed her. “How dare you! You weren’t here, so don’t tell me how it was. You didn’t have to live through the horror and pain of hurting your parents. And you have no idea what it was like to give birth all alone and have that child taken from you before you could even see her face. So don’t stand there and act holier than thou—because you are not blameless.”