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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.

  • door opened. Callum and Mila entered, guilt flickering briefly across their matching faces before Mila thrust a portrait into my hands.

  • this for you!”

  • care was

  • Aria?”

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

  • been honest then, perhaps we could have ended things amicably.

  • glanced at Mila, who

  • again,” he said smoothly. “The framing shop lady was wearing perfume – it rubbed off when we were

  • paranoid!” Mila planted her hands on her hips,

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

  • own child?”

  • Mila forward. My daughter, with eyes so like my own, met my gaze

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

  • your beloved husband and daughter will make up an excuse to come see

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