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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.

  • in their exchanged

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

  • someone I once loved, so

  • light sleeper, and I kept my phone on silent when I was with

  • Blake – his childhood

  • Sophie. When Callum 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

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  • love only me, had chosen to

  • pregnant.

  • glanced at Mila with

  • girl was okay. I couldn’t have

  • about Aria?” one friend

  • hesitated before hugging Mila closer. “Of course I love her.”

  • realized, wasn’t as pure as I’d believed.

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

  • night, when you learned about Aria’s complications… did you ever hope, even for

  • moment…?”

  • fell deathly quiet.

  • breath, waiting to hear if my husband – the man who promised to love me forever – had ever wished, even

  • But Aria is my wife now, and

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