The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 75

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  • 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.

  • silent, and something in their exchanged glances

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

  • once

  • been a light sleeper, and I kept my phone on silent when

  • his childhood sweetheart.

  • me it was just teenage infatuation, swearing he’d never betray my trust. I believed everyone had a

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  • claimed to love only me, had chosen

  • pregnant.

  • paralyzed, watching as Callum glanced at Mila with

  • okay. I couldn’t have

  • about Aria?” one friend

  • Mila closer. “Of course I love

  • now realized, wasn’t

  • Sophie say she’d take you back, even

  • Aria’s complications… did you ever hope, even for a

  • moment…?”

  • fell deathly

  • held my breath, 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

  • “Yes… I did. But Aria is my wife now, and

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