My Son Calls Me a Maid, Goodbye

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In the seventh year of my marriage to Zachary Hayes, I overheard our five-year-old son, Leo, asking him an innocent question.

"Daddy, why can't Aunt Jocelyn be my mommy?"

I froze in my tracks.

Aunt Jocelyn―Jocelyn Greer? Zachary's first love?

Before I could even process what I had heard, a speeding car careened straight toward Leo.

Without a second thought, I lunged forward and shoved him out of the way.

*Bang!*

The brutal impact knocked me into total darkness.

When I woke up in the h