Mama Fiona Confession -

Fiona didn’t turn around. Her hand trembled as she touched Elena’s stone. “Because I have carried this secret longer than I carried you in my womb, Rosa. And I cannot die with it still inside me.”

Rosa was crying now, silent tears mixing with rain. “Why didn’t you ever tell me?” mama fiona confession

The rain had turned the cemetery path to mud, but Fiona didn’t feel the cold seeping through her thin shoes. She stood before two gravestones—her husband’s, and the small, weathered one beside it. The name “Elena” was nearly erased by years of moss. Fiona didn’t turn around

“Elena loved you more than anything. But she was sick—not in her body, but in her mind. After you were born, something broke. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t stop crying. She thought you would be better off without her. One night, she walked into the sea.” And I cannot die with it still inside me

Rosa stepped closer. “What secret?”

Fiona sat down on the wet grass, and Rosa, numb, sat beside her.