• Chapter 3

  • I didn’t have to wait long in the room. Callum soon entered with Mila, their matching features striking–both wearing gentle smiles, eyes full of apparent warmth as they moved to embrace me.

  • I instinctively stepped back.

  • Callum’s smile faltered for a moment, but he said nothing. Mila’s eyes filled with tears. “Mommy, don’t you want to hug me?”

  • Her lips trembled, eyes glistening – the perfect picture of innocence that always melted her father’s

  • heart.

  • Callum immediately knelt beside her, pulling her close. “Of course not, sweetheart. Mommy’s dress is stained–she just doesn’t want to ruin your beautiful birthday dress.”

  • Mila’s tears subsided as she processed this. Then her face lit up with that dazzling smile I once

  • treasured.

  • my birthday, we never forget what you went through for me. The gift isn’t here yet – we need to go pick it

  • the previous birthdays, how they’d always had a “special gift” for me, how I’d been moved to tears each time. Now I realized those gifts were just excuses to meet Sophie.

  • life for – I felt hollow. And Callum, who’d sworn never to betray me, had made those vows

  • them leave hand in hand.

  • Callum’s friends were leaving, their knowing smirks

  • in our room, I retrieved an old phone from a locked box. After charging it, I powered it

  • I’d learned about Sophie Blake. His childhood sweetheart, his “pure first love.” Young and insecure, I’d

  • Wichte

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  • of photos at the beach. There she was with Mila, surrounded by sparklers, faces pressed together like mother and

  • people I

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