Unconscious Husband: Meet Her Love In Silence by Ken Slaner

The moment Ariana saw the landline phone in Melon’s hand, her heart skipped a beat. Realization washed over her. Her son had discovered something amiss, leaving her momentarily at a loss for words.

As she had feared, Melon broke into tears upon seeing her.

“Mommy, you lied to me. You gave me a fake number,” he accused.

Ariana found herself unable to speak. She opened her mouth, but her throat felt parched and constricted. An unspoken bitterness lingered there.

The number wasn’t fake; it had simply been disconnected.

And the man who once owned that number, Melon’s father, had indeed been real.

Tears streaming down his face, Melon gasped for breath, looking utterly heartbroken.

‘s L I B R A R

failed to connect, he’d sensed that something was wrong. Choking back sobs, he questioned Ariana,

had always been mature for his age and had never broken down like this before. Pulling him into a comforting embrace, she took

through hiccups, “Then

a loss for words. Thoughts of Theodore weighed her down Like a massive boulder, making

she fought to suppress a

call you very soon, alright?” Ariana managed to say, her voice tinged with

flowed unabated. Finally, exhaustion won out, and he fell asleep in her arms, his

putting Melon to bed, Ariana found herself

couch, she felt the emotions she’d worked so

mouth to stifle her sobs as her body shook uncontrollably. Sliding off the couch onto the

thorns, each thought pricking at her heart and causing such agony that even