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ALMS TO LOVE CHAPTER 49

Author: MIKS DELOSO
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-18 01:11:35

The letter on the table fluttered softly from the breeze its seal now breaking, its threat revealing itself.

The flames danced in the firelight with golden tongues, projecting shadows that capered behind Marie like specters awaiting summoning.

She did not stir.

Not until the soft voice pierced the crackling quiet.

"Mommy… why are you smiling?"

Marie slowly turned.

Candy, her little daughter who was seven years old, stood barefoot at the edge of the study wrapped in a blanket, her eyes wide and her expression innocent too innocent for this room, for this woman.

Marie's smile stayed, but it softened, subtly, almost automatically. She went down to Candy's level.

"Did I wake you?" she asked softly, pushing back the golden curls from the child's face.

Candy shook her head, blinking. "You're smiling like you do when you say you win."

Marie's fingers froze.

The fire snapped.

She released a soft breath, then looked beyond her daughter to the letter behind her, the broken seal, the war she had
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