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, she stepped out of

as soon as she entered the living

in the middle of the room, was Katrina. She was wearing her mother’s clothes, sitting on

you and only you. That awful woman is finally gone. She used her money

that? Katrina, it’s only after meeting

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chosen to spend my life

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 over the

be the ideal

hid a heart so twisted and depraved

her thoughts, Daniela didn’t notice when the office

harsh words—”He even says that every time he sees Daniela, he’s reminded of her mother and feels utterly repulsed”—played on an

word like a punishment, as though engraving Caiden’s cruelty into her memory, hurting herself

the phone

out of her daze, looking up in confusion. Before she could process what

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