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  • I spent two hours on a crucial phone call in Callum’s study. When I emerged, they still hadn’t

  • returned.

  • Once, I would have been worried sick. Now, I only felt bitter irony.

  • In the living room, my phone buzzed with a message from an unknown number. The attached photo showed Mila and Sophie hand in hand, running toward Callum on the beach. Their faces glowed with joy beneath the sparklers‘ light – the perfect family portrait. Without me.

  • The next message confirmed my suspicions: “Seven years of deception must make you furious. I hope you’ll make the right choice.”

  • Sophie’s words were carefully crafted, but her meaning was clear: step aside gracefully.

  • entered, guilt flickering briefly across their matching faces before Mila thrust a portrait into my

  • this

  • artist’s care was

  • Aria?”

  • up at him, catching the faint trace of Sophie’s signature perfume. “Callum, why do you smell

  • we could have ended things amicably.

  • at Mila, who gave an almost

  • shop lady was wearing perfume – it rubbed off when we were paying. Isn’t that perfectly

  • being paranoid!” Mila planted her hands on her hips, face scrunched

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  • added. “Even if

  • own child?”

  • own, met my gaze without flinching. Like father, like daughter – natural–born

  • her room, muttering, “Poor Daddy, Mommy’s

  • three minutes, your beloved husband and daughter will make up an excuse to come see me.”

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