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Chapter 16
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2025-12-12 15:11:49
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Veronica's POVTwo years passed in a blur of normalcy that felt like a miracle. Every morning I woke up expecting chaos or crisis and found ordinary family life instead. Monte grew from a toddler into a bright, curious five-year-old who asked endless questions about everything. Sophia transformed from a fragile infant into a sturdy two-year-old who climbed furniture fearlessly, her repaired heart beating strong and steady. Four built his consulting business into something legitimate and profitable, helping companies restructure without the criminal undertones that had defined his father's empire.We moved into a larger house in a quiet neighbourhood with good schools. The kind of place I had dreamed about during those dark years with Jason. A yard for the children. Neighbours who smiled and waved. A life so normal it still sometimes felt surreal.Four and I fell into comfortable routines. Morn
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Veronica's POVI watched Four fall apart slowly through the night. He sat beside Manuel's bed, holding that fragile hand, and spoke in a low voice that broke repeatedly. He thanked Manuel for everything. For saving him. For believing in him when no one else would. For showing him what a real father looked like. He apologised for not being enough, for not finding a way to save Manuel the way Manuel had saved him."You were always enough," I whispered, squeezing Four's shoulder. But he could not hear me through his grief.The hospice nurse checked Manuel's vitals every thirty minutes. His pulse was thready. His breathing was shallow and irregular. She told us he could hear us even if he could not respond. So Four kept talking, pouring out years of gratitude and love and pain.Around four in the morning, Manuel's breathing changed. The gaps between breaths grew longer. Twenty seconds. Thirty. Forty. Each time I thought it was the end and then he would gasp again, fighting to stay just a
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Four's POVI broke down completely. The whiskey glass slipped from my hand and shattered on Manuel's hardwood floor but I barely heard it. I doubled over in the chair, sobbing like a child, unable to control the grief pouring out of me. Manuel was dying. The only father I had ever truly known was dying and there was nothing I could do to stop it.Manuel moved from his chair and knelt beside me despite the pain it clearly caused him. He put his hand on my shoulder, steady and warm, the same gesture he had made a thousand times before when I needed grounding."I am sorry," Manuel said quietly. "I know this is hard. But I need you to listen to me now."I tried to pull myself together but the tears would not stop. Manuel waited patiently until I could breathe again, until I could look at him through blurred vision."I am refusing aggressive treatment," Man
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Four's POVThey wheeled Sophia away at 2:47 in the morning. I memorised the exact time because I needed something concrete to hold onto. Dr Walsh walked beside the gurney, her hand resting protectively on the plastic incubator. Veronica tried to follow but a nurse gently stopped her. We were not allowed in the operating room. We could only wait.The surgical waiting room was empty at this hour. Fluorescent lights hummed overhead, too bright and too cold. Plastic chairs lined the walls in neat rows. A television mounted in the corner played silent news. Veronica sat down heavily, her c-section incision clearly painful though she would not admit it. I sat beside her and took her hand.We did not speak. There were no words adequate for this moment. Our four-pound daughter was having open-heart surgery. Surgeons would stop her heart, repair the hole, and restart it. She might not survive. The odds
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Veronica's POVFour stopped eating. I watched him disappear into himself over the following days, his eyes hollow and distant. He sat in the nursery we had painted together, staring at the empty crib like it was a grave. The lavender walls that had seemed so hopeful now felt like a mockery. Every baby item we had carefully chosen felt like a promise we might not be able to keep."This is my fault," he said one night.His voice was flat, dead. "I am cursed. Everything I touch gets damaged. My father damaged me and now I am damaging my daughter before she is even born."The words cut through me like glass. I wanted to argue, to tell him he was wrong, but I knew logic would not reach him right now. Fear had wrapped around his heart like a vice and he could not see past it. So instead I knelt in front of him, taking his cold hands in mine, forcing him to look at me.
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Four's POVMarcus Reynolds cried for twenty minutes straight. Dr Chen sat quietly, letting the grief pour out of him. I watched this broken man sobbing across from me and understood something fundamental. We were both victims of my father. Different kinds of victims but victims nonetheless.When Marcus finally caught his breath, he looked at me with raw vulnerability. "I have spent twenty-eight years hating. Hating your father. Hating you. Hating myself for not saving my dad somehow. The hate ate everything. My marriage. My relationship with my kids. My entire life became about this one horrible thing.""I understand that," I said quietly. "My father made me into someone I hated. I spent years trying to escape what he made me.""Tell me about him," Marcus said suddenly. "Your father. What was he really like?"So I told him. Not the sanitised version but the truth. I
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Veronica's POVThe manila envelope arrived while Four was sleeping. A nurse handed it to me with a smile, assuming it was getwell cards or hospital paperwork. I thanked her and set it on the chair beside Monte, not thinking much about it.&n
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Dr Chen's POVI was reviewing charts in my office when the emergency alert came through. Four Winter was back in the ER. Again. I grabbed my tablet and ran, already furious before I even saw him.He was on a gurney in the trauma bay, unconscious and burning with fever. Veronica stood beside him cry
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Four's POVPain was my constant companion but I ignored it. I had signed myself out of the hospital against every doctor's recommendation because being in that courtroom mattered more than my physical comfort. Veronica needed me. Monte needed me. I would be there even if it killed me.My lawyer Sa
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Detective Rivera's POVThe legal notice landed on my desk like a bomb. Custody petition filed by Steven and Patricia Castellano for their grandson, Monte Castellano Jr. Hearing scheduled in seventy-two hours.I read the documen
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