• 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.

  • “You all know, don’t you?” he asked cryptically.

  • something in their exchanged glances made

  • in the hospital that night. She called me

  • I once loved, so I went.”

  • my phone on silent when I was with her. That’s why

  • Blake – his childhood

  • and I got together, he’d 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 faithful in the

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  • husband, who claimed to love only me, had chosen to comfort his ex while

  • pregnant.

  • stood paralyzed, watching as Callum glanced at Mila with

  • I couldn’t

  • what about Aria?” one friend asked.

  • before hugging Mila closer.

  • realized, wasn’t as

  • up: “Cal, didn’t Sophie say she’d take you back, even with a child, if Aria wasn’t in

  • complications… did you ever hope, even for

  • moment…?”

  • room fell deathly quiet.

  • me forever – had ever wished, even briefly, for my death to clear the path for his first love.

  • answering: “Yes… I did. But Aria is my wife now, and I won’t

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