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“Granny Aria, can you fix Tia for me? I was playing with her, but I broke her,” a little girl said between sobs.

“Let’s see… what happened to Tia?” the older woman asked as she inspected the rag doll’s arm.

“She got stuck in a bush, and when I pulled her out, her hand fell off.”

“Hmm… I’ll see what I can do. This will require a very precise operation,” the woman said as she walked toward her pincushion.

Hearing this, the girl covered her face with a look of pure horror.

“Don’t worry, we’ll put something on her so it won’t hurt. You’ll see, she won’t feel a thing,” the woman reassured her, seeing her frightened expression.

Aria Fairchild had arrived in that town ten years ago, after spending a year battling a deep depression following the tragic death of her only son. The boy’s father had helped her for a while, but in the end, she couldn’t bear it any longer. She left everything behind and ran away to a small, picturesque village in Valeria.

The town, perched on a hill and constantly affected by erosion, had a tiny population. Its only connection to the outside world was a pedestrian bridge. If Leonardo Palmer ever searched for her, he would never find her. This place held no significance to anyone.

Aria had come here to let herself wither away–to wait for death to finally claim her. Yet, to her surprise, ten years had passed, and death still refused to take her.

ancient buildings, quaint stone houses,

son’s soul and begged for her own forgiveness. For forty–eight years, she had carried the burden of guilt. If only she had been stronger, less

hold it against him? He had his own family. She had only been a passing moment in his life. The truth was, she had fallen for him the moment she saw him. He was older, yes, but she didn’t care. The time they spent together in his home had been enough for her

father’s abuse. That made her forget how her mother suffered. That made her forget she was already engaged to someone

reality of her arranged marriage to a man nearly as old as her father. A man who was wealthy, yes, but as rich as he was, he was equally

Roman Fairchild had only one child. His wife had tried for

have been an ideal husband for Aria, but, according to her father, a common woman had seduced him first. Martina had

paths with a French aristocrat. The De

bad match.

hadn’t counted on was Leonardo Palmer and his daughter. Aria

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in love with the dashing twenty–seven–year–old

secret… until it

few months, they were

his fingers. Aria had dishonored the family. And worse–she was pregnant with the child of a forbidden

everything. But it wasn’t enough. A man

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