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Chapter 62

Author: Nini
last update publish date: 2026-04-21 12:16:55

The ward door opened and Serene walked in like she owned the room.

Victor looked up from the bed where he and Daniel had been mid-competition over something on the tablet — and his expression shifted immediately from relaxed to guarded.

“What are you doing here?”

Serene smiled the smile she used when she wanted to appear unbothered. “I went to your house. You weren’t there.” She glanced around the room with theatrical curiosity. “Your neighbour’s maid mentioned you were here — with Elara’s son.
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    He crouched in front of her and looked up. “Can you walk?”Elara tested her weight carefully, one hand on the bedpost. “I think I can manage.”“I could carry you again—”“Victor.” She gave him a look. “You’ve done enough. I’ll walk.”He straightened and said nothing further, just fell into step behind her as she made her way down the stairs — close enough to catch her if she needed it, far enough back to give her the dignity of not needing it.Daniel appeared at the bottom of the stairs the moment he heard them.“Mum.” He rushed forward. “Are you okay?”“I’m fine, baby.” She touched his face. “I’m perfectly fine.”She reached for her bag from the sofa and straightened. “I should head back. It’s getting late.” She opened her arms. “Come give Mum a kiss.”He came to her obediently, kissed her cheek, then stepped back with the ease of a child who knows a goodnight is not a goodbye.She looked at Victor. “Goodnight.”He opened his mouth to reply.And the sky opened.Rain hit the windows a

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    Elara came through the front door wearing a smile she hadn’t entirely intended to bring home with her.She sat on the sofa and looked at it from the inside — examined it, tried to account for it — and couldn’t quite manage to make it go away.She heard Daniel on the stairs before she saw him.“Mum.”“Hey, baby.” She opened her arms and he came and leaned against her, warm and solid and smelling faintly of hospital soap. “How are you feeling? I’m sorry I couldn’t be there this morning — are you okay?”“I’m fine.” He settled against her. “Atleast I was with Uncle Twin.” He paused, then corrected himself: “I mean—”“It’s okay.” She kissed the top of his head. “You can call him whatever feels right. There are no rules.”He looked up at her with those serious eyes. “Mum?”“Mm?”“Don’t get angry.”She pulled back slightly to look at him properly. “Why would I get angry?”He took a small preparatory breath. “I want to sleep at Daddy’s tonight.”Elara looked at him.He watched her carefully,

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    The ward door opened and Serene walked in like she owned the room.Victor looked up from the bed where he and Daniel had been mid-competition over something on the tablet — and his expression shifted immediately from relaxed to guarded.“What are you doing here?”Serene smiled the smile she used when she wanted to appear unbothered. “I went to your house. You weren’t there.” She glanced around the room with theatrical curiosity. “Your neighbour’s maid mentioned you were here — with Elara’s son.” She turned toward Daniel with a softness that didn’t reach her eyes. “Hello there. What’s your name?”Daniel looked at her the way children look at strangers who smile too deliberately. “Daniel,” he said carefully.“Daniel.” She repeated it warmly. Then looked around the room again — at the tablet, at the way Victor was sitting, at the easy familiarity of the scene. “Elara’s son “ “He’s not Elara’s son,” Victor said flatly. “He’s my son.”Serene’s smile stayed in place.But something behind i

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    Elara slipped off the bed and crossed to the doorway where Julian stood.“You came.” She kept her voice warm, careful. “How did you know we were here?”“Maya told me.” His eyes moved past her to the bed, to Daniel, to Victor sitting on the edge of it. “I came to see how he was doing.”“He’s okay now. He’s much better.” She touched Julian’s arm lightly. “Thank you for coming.”“What is he doing here?”The question came out cold and flat. Not loud Julian was never loud but with an edge underneath it that cut.Victor looked up from the bed.“I’d be the one asking you that question,” he said evenly. “Considering this is my son.”The words landed in the room like something dropped from a height.Julian’s eyes moved to Daniel. To Victor. Back to Daniel. The pieces assembled themselves in his face whether he wanted them to or not.His son.Said plainly. In front of the boy.He looked at Daniel at the child who had just, moments ago, called Victor Dad with the easy certainty of someone say

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    Elara opened her mouth.Closed it.Six years of carefully constructed explanations, rehearsed answers, the right words arranged in the right order for exactly this moment — and standing here in a hospital room with both of them looking at her, she had nothing.Victor didn’t wait for her.He crossed to Daniel’s bedside and sat on the edge of it, and his voice when he spoke was gentle and completely present in the way it always was with his son.“Hey, buddy. Are you okay?”“I’m better now that you’re here.” Daniel looked up at him with those clear, serious eyes. Then, simply: “Daddy.”Victor went very still.“Why are you calling me that?”Daniel blinked, as though the question were slightly ridiculous. “Because Mum said you’re my dad.” A pause. “I’m so glad you’re not dead. At least now I’ll have someone to show my friends.” He said it with the matter-of-fact relief of someone who has been waiting a long time for a problem to resolve itself and is glad it finally has.Elara pressed her

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    They left the school together, Elara’s hand on Daniel’s shoulder, guiding him to the car, neither of them speaking until they were home and the door was closed behind them and the house was quiet around them.This was not a conversation for a school office. This was not a conversation for the public.She sat him on her bed and sat across from him and looked at her son really looked at him, at the face she had been looking at for six years, at the eyes that had always known more than she gave them credit for and understood that the time for careful evasion was over.“Daniel.” She took a breath. “I owe you the truth. You’re older now. You can understand things that you couldn’t before.” Her voice caught on the next words before she could steady it. “And I can’t keep lying to you. It’s not fair. It has never been fair to you, and I’m sorry it took me this long to say it.”Daniel watched her with that grave, patient stillness. Waiting.Her voice broke.Never not once in six years had s

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