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.

there was a power outage, she stepped

as she entered the living room,

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

you. That awful woman is finally gone. She used her money to control me,

even make a man happy… What kind of woman is that? Katrina, it’s only after meeting you that I’ve learned

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the wife I’ve chosen

was a scorching summer day, and as Daniela stood at the top of the stairs,

saw them in the living room, locked in a sweaty embrace, their faces flushed and dazed. Without a second thought, she ran to her room, leaned

Caiden appeared to be the ideal husband and

respectable front hid a heart so twisted and depraved

her thoughts, Daniela didn’t notice when

he’s reminded of her mother and feels utterly repulsed”—played on an endless loop

clung to every word like a punishment, as though engraving Caiden’s cruelty into her memory,

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