At that moment…
Something broke inside me.
Not pain. Not anger. Truth.

The truth that we had been hiding behind our children…
Using them as an excuse to remain in a broken, lifeless marriage.

We thought we were protecting them.
But they were the ones suffering silently.
That day… We didn’t fix everything.

Silence. Complete silence.
No shouting. No denial. Just truth.
Raw. Painful. Exposed.

Divine started crying softly.
“You both look different outside…”
She wiped her tears.

“But inside this house… it feels like nobody wants to be here…”
Favour took a deep breath.
“We’re not children like that anymore…”

She looked straight at us.
“We see everything… even the things you think we don’t see.” ”
That sentence… It hit deeper than any insult.

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