• Chapter 2

  • That night Mila was born kept replaying in my mind.

  • We were still a week from the due date. Callum had cleared his schedule, insisting on staying home with me until the baby arrived. He’d been attentive and caring.

  • That evening, he’d just promised to cook dinner when his phone rang. “Important business,” he’d said, promising to return quickly.

  • I didn’t think much of it – I was feeling fine, and our housekeeper was there. I didn’t need constant

  • supervision.

  • After he left, I took my usual evening walk in the backyard. But a loose board in the gazebo gave way. I fell hard, and then there was blood.

  • The housekeeper rushed me to the hospital. The doctors warned of severe hemorrhaging and complications – my life was at risk.

  • his phone kept going to voicemail. He never made it to the hospital

  • thought I might die on

  • some miracle, I survived and gave birth to our beautiful daughter.

  • kneeling beside my bed, eyes wet with tears, voice shaking with what I thought was remorse.

  • to you, Aria, and to our Mila,” he’d

  • the name himself. It meant “miracle” in some languages, but

  • and father, doting on us both. I believed

  • Until now.

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  • realized our perfect love story was nothing but a farce. Even my Mila had betrayed

  • discussion, unaware of my

  • hurting your mom’s feelings by being so

  • Sophie?”

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