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ALMS TO LOVE CHAPTER 46

Author: MIKS DELOSO
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-14 23:45:26

His arms circled her involuntarily, strong and unyielding, as though he had been waiting for this moment—this breakdown—for an eternity longer than he could admit. Fiona shuddered in his chest, breathing in short gasping rasps as she gazed at the photograph now on the floor.

The baby.

"The heir nobody wanted."

"What does that mean?" she breathed. "What baby? Whose baby?"

Charles hunched beside her, one hand lightly pushing into her back. "I don't know," he told her, but his voice was weighed down. "But someone does. And they want us to remember it."

Fiona's fingers edged towards the photograph. The corners were frayed, as if it had been handled too often by too many hands. The face of the baby was turned to one side, eyes closed in slumber, mouth slightly ajar. No name of the hospital. No date stamp. Just a blanket. A background that was hospital sterile. And that message, scribbled like an imprecation.

Fiona blinked. And was gone somewhere else.

A corridor. Faintly lit.

Crying.

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