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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 hands.

  • drew this for you!”

  • unchanged from years ago. The artist’s care was

  • it, Aria?” Callum asked

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

  • perhaps we could have ended things amicably.

  • at Mila, who gave an

  • smoothly. “The framing shop lady was wearing perfume – it rubbed off when we were

  • being paranoid!” Mila planted her hands on her

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  • Callum added. “Even if you

  • own child?”

  • daughter, with eyes so like my own, met my gaze

  • room, muttering, “Poor Daddy,

  • you doubt me, I can prove it. Within three minutes, your beloved husband

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