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?”

room fell silent, and something in their exchanged

voice grew distant, lost in memory. “Sophie was in the hospital that night. She called me crying, begging me to

once

always been a light sleeper, and I kept my phone on silent when I was with her.

– his childhood sweetheart.

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

only me, had chosen to comfort his ex while

glanced at Mila with pained affection.

God my little girl was okay. I

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Aria?” one friend

hugging Mila closer. “Of

wasn’t as

Sophie say she’d take you back, even with a child,

night, when you learned about Aria’s complications… did you

fell deathly quiet.

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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