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.

Callum breathed, his practiced sincerity making

to sell the shares. I don’t

– he knew I’d sold the shares deliberately. But his need to

now we’re done. Those

the child I’d poured all my love into. But her lies had poisoned even that. I’d learned the hard way

of course. But what was left except

wet, insisting we weren’t finished. I simply showed them out.

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