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Chapter 103:
When her mother was alive, he made an effort to pretend.
Once her mother died, he completely distanced himself, and Daniela naively believed it was because he was
drowning in grief over her death.
Yet, before her mother’s funeral had even ended, he had already remarried.
Daniela was left stunned and utterly confused.
She tried to rationalize it in every way she could. Maybe he needed someone to help him cope, or perhaps he
was so lost in missing her mother that he couldn't express it. After all, love didn’t always have to be spoken;
maybe he carried it silently.
She knew her father was still young, and it wasn’t entirely fair to expect him to live alone for the rest of his life.
But everything changed on one blistering afternoon when the central air conditioning broke down, jolting her
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtawake from the suffocating heat.
Wanting to find out if there was a power outage, she stepped out of her room.
But as soon as she entered the living room, she froze in her tracks.
There, in the middle of the room, was Katrina. She was wearing her mother’s clothes, sitting on Caiden’s lap. The
sound of their labored breathing filled the room, like an unbearable echo.
She overheard Caiden telling Katrina, “Katrina, | love you and only you. That awful woman is finally gone. She
used her money to control me, but what man would tolerate being treated like a servant? All she ever did was
earn money—she was...”
Useless for anything else. A woman who can’t even make a man happy... What kind of woman is that? Katrina,
it’s only after meeting you that I've learned what it feels like to be a real man.
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You are the wife I've chosen to spend my life with.”
It was a scorching summer day, and as Daniela stood at the top of the stairs, everything in her life seemed to fall
apart.
She saw them in the living room, locked in a sweaty embrace, their faces flushed and dazed. Without a second
thought, she ran to her room, leaned over the toilet, and retched uncontrollably.
To everyone else, Caiden appeared to be the ideal husband and a loving father.
No one could have imagined that behind his respectable front hid a heart so twisted and depraved it was
impossible to see.
Lost in her thoughts, Daniela didn’t notice when the office door creaked open.
Joyce's harsh words—"He even says that every the sees Daniela, he’s reminded of her mother and feels
utterly repulsed”—played on an endless loop in her mind.
She clung to every word like a punishment, as though engraving Caiden’s cruelty into her memory, hurting
herself over and over.
Then, a hand took the phone from her fingers.
Daniela blinked, snapping out of her daze, looking up in confusion. Before she could process what was
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Cedric’s steady, low voice filled the quiet room.
“Daniela! You're not alone. Don’t be scared. I'll always be by your side.”
In that instant, Daniela let her guard down, surrendering her strength as she leaned into his shoulder.
She wasn’t one to cry.
Since that summer, she hadn't shed a tear.
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