Chapter 9

Chapter 9

A month later, they found me.

I’d sold all my shares, using the money to buy a small house in a city I loved. My days were peaceful – tending to my garden, brewing tea, living at my own pace.

Until Callum burst through my gate, a weary–looking Mila at his side. They rushed toward me as if nothing had changed, arms outstretched for an embrace I easily avoided.

finally found you,” Callum breathed, his practiced sincerity making my stomach

forced to sell the shares. I don’t blame you. We can still be a family if you

need to paint me as a victim rather than acknowledge

dating, and now we’re done. Those shares were your compensation. You betrayed

I’d carried for nine months, the child I’d poured all my love into. But her lies had poisoned even that. I’d learned the hard way that sharing blood didn’t

hurt, of course. But what was left except our biological connection?

his head, eyes wet, insisting we weren’t finished. I

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