Chapter 103


Chapter 103:

When her mother was alive, he made an effort to pretend.

Once her mother died, he completely distanced himself, and Daniela naively believed it was because he was drowning in grief over her death.

Yet, before her mother’s funeral had even ended, he had already remarried.

Daniela was left stunned and utterly confused.

She tried to rationalize it in every way she could. Maybe he needed someone to help him cope, or perhaps he was so lost in missing her mother that he couldn’t express it. After all, love didn’t always have to be spoken; maybe he carried it silently.

She knew her father was still young, and it wasn’t entirely fair to expect him to live alone for the rest of his life.

But everything changed on one blistering afternoon when the central air conditioning broke down, jolting her awake from the suffocating heat.

was a power outage,

the living room, she

room, was Katrina. She was wearing her mother’s clothes, sitting on Caiden’s lap. The sound of their labored breathing filled the room, like

woman is finally gone. She used her money to control me, but what man would tolerate being treated like a servant? All she

anything else. A woman who can’t even make a man happy… What kind of woman is that? Katrina, it’s only after meeting you that I’ve

available

chosen to spend my

a scorching summer day, and as Daniela stood at the top of the stairs, everything in her life seemed to

sweaty embrace, their faces flushed and dazed. Without a

be the

have imagined that behind his respectable front hid a heart so twisted and depraved it

notice when the office door

reminded of her mother and feels utterly repulsed”—played

word like a punishment, as though engraving

hand took the phone from her

could process what was happening, someone knelt down in front of her, wrapping her in

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