Helanie:
"Mom, Niles is not my father?" I asked, my eyes filled with tears. The things my mother had gone through made my heart shrink in my chest. I had no clue she had endured so much pain, and even afterward, she couldn't be with me because she had to protect me.
My mother was in tears, her hands resting in her lap, one over the other, gently tapping the back of one hand with her fingers.
