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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.

  • flickering

  • drew this for

  • of myself, unchanged from years ago. The artist’s care was evident in every

  • Aria?”

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

  • he’d been honest then, perhaps we could have ended

  • at Mila, who gave an almost imperceptible nod.

  • upset because she’s overthinking again,” he said smoothly. “The framing shop lady was

  • paranoid!” Mila planted her hands on

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  • daughter with me,” Callum added. “Even if you don’t

  • own child?”

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

  • toward her room, muttering, “Poor Daddy,

  • “If you doubt me, I can prove it. Within three minutes, your

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