"Hector"

These days had been very difficult for Samantha. She was going through a lot, and being pregnant, her emotions were running high. Isabella's attempt to kill her the day before and her thinking I had discovered I loved Isabella, which was ridiculous, had affected her greatly. It was a dark night and a long day until she calmed down.

I took her for a walk on the beach, just to admire the place and spend some quiet time together. She was finally relaxing. That was until we got home and found those three—the father, the stepmother, and the stepmother's daughter—sitting there as if they were royalty, important guests, but they were just unwanted gatecrashers. Samantha trembled with rage when she saw them. I felt her body stiffen under my arms and hatred emanate from her. She had already told me so many stories about that man who, according to her, was an opportunistic profiteer, who never wanted her as a daughter and who suggested her mother have an abortion when she got pregnant,