After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 217

The soft glow of the morning sun filtered through the wide open windows, casting a warm light across the polished surface of the piano in front of me.

The familiar hum of the household filled the room-children's laughter, the occasional soft shuffle of feet, and the ever present weight of my thoughts, which lingered in the background like a melody I couldn't quite finish. The return of Monologue had stirred a storm across the world.

It wasn't just about the music video I had released, albeit unintentionally; it was the three year silence that had made it all so much more impactful

Fans from every corner of the world buzzed with excitement, comments flooding social media, speculating and debating.

Some even claimed they heard lullabies and the distant cry of babies within the tune-a clue, they believed, that my disappearance might have been due to something far more personal than a creative hiatus.

But none of that mattered at this moment, sitting in my living room, surrounded by the two most important people in my world-my children.

"Mummy!" A small but sweet voice tugged at my leg.

I glanced down to see Shirlika, her large, innocent eyes looking up at me, her dark curls framing her cherubic face like a halo.

"It's almost Christmas. What will Grandpa Claus give us this year?"

I couldn't help but smile as I reached down to scoop her up into my arms, settling her comfortably on my lap.

"What present do you want from Grandpa Claus, my little one?"

Her answer was immediate, as if she had been thinking about it for weeks. "I want Daddy."

and for a

ghost in our home, a name that lived only in the stories I told them and the whispers they must have

more serious voice broke the

get off Mummy. You'll crush

to see

he had inherited a

dark eyes, even at his young age, already carried an intensity far beyond

was carefree, he was

the piano with his hands tucked behind his back, as if assessing a battlefield. "Sherlock" I said softly,

stuck out her tongue at him, her mischievous eyes

get to sit with Mummy and

cheeks flushed slightly, but he crossed his arms over

I'm just trying to

empty space next to

man. What

answer, Shirlika, in true younger sibling fashion, chimed

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Daddy too? He tidd me

him a sous for shanda and making Mummy sad Shirlika giggled. "You said you wanted to see him, to see it to take

huffed. "Only so1 codd

while playful, carried an undercurrent of the pism we all felt-pain that neither of them fully underdoof, but

weight of their words