Chapter 1

Chapter 1

My evening gown was stained with spilled wine an unsightly mark that made it inappropriate for hosting. I decided to change before returning to our guests.

As I passed one of the guest rooms, a familiar voice caught my attention.

“Cal, level with me- did you really miss that emergency call the night Mila was born?”

At the mention of my daughter, I froze. Through the gap in the door, I could see Callum reclined on the sofa, slightly buzzed from the party. Mila sat beside him, while several of his friends were scattered

around the room.

After a pause, he simply said, “I didn’t hear it.”

I remembered that night. Callum’s work had always been demanding, and there were times when he’d miss calls during important meetings. I couldn’t understand why his friend was pressing this point.

I was about to leave when I noticed Callum suddenly sit up straight, his eyes sharpening with clarity.

know, don’t you?”

something in their exchanged glances made me linger.

“Sophie was in the hospital that

once loved, so

sleeper, and I kept my phone on silent when I was with her. That’s why I

– his childhood

it was just teenage infatuation, swearing he’d never betray my trust. I believed everyone had a past – as long as they remained faithful in

this… my husband, who claimed to love only me, had chosen to

stood paralyzed, watching as Callum glanced at

okay. I couldn’t have lived with myself

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Aria?” one friend asked.

before hugging Mila closer.

that love, I now realized, wasn’t as pure as

“Cal, didn’t Sophie say she’d take you back, even with a child,

Aria’s complications… did you ever hope, even

room fell deathly

waiting to hear if my husband – the man who promised to love me forever – had ever wished, even briefly, for my death to clear the path for his

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