PRESENT DAY The mistake of trusting my mother, believing that she would never deceive me or fool me, for I was her son, and she loved me. That mistake cost me everything and almost my life. She knew how important marrying Samantha was to me. If I wanted to marry any other person even after she declined my first proposal, I would have done that since. I would have picked a thousand women, I would have moved on and not cared. But I didn’t. Sam was the only one I wanted. She was the only woman who could be with someone like me. The only person who would accept me and not disappear, who would not leave, no matter. Samantha was the only woman I wanted. She was the one I needed, yet my mother snatched that dream away with her own two hands. She didn’t care for my feelings, nor the aftereffect o