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2025-05-19 14:51:26Chapter 44 :The Echoes of Her Voice
The storm outside had dwindled to a drizzle, the clouds remaining low as if not quite prepared to disperse. In the darkness of the study, Isla sat cross-legged on the floor, the files and yellowed envelopes dusty around her as she had found them buried in a secret drawer of her mother's antique vanity. Her heart hammered as she read each piece as if it were a piece of the truth—a truth that her mother had withheld.
She had not expected to find the ancient recorder. The tiny machine was wrapped in silk and buried in a velvet pouch with the faint smell of age and lavender. Isla trembled as she put in the ancient battery she found sitting close by and pressed the play button.
Her mother's voice emerged, ethereal but clear.
"If you're listening, Isla, then I couldn't tell you in person. I couldn't risk it changing the way you look at me. But you have a right to know. About Victor. About the man I used to love."
Isla remained silent, lips parted slightly.
"I was twenty when I met Victor Kane. Brilliant. Dangerous. Alive in a way that terrified and delighted me. He was already crashing, already wearing his darkness like a crown. But I thought I could save him. That my love would be enough."
The voice paused, a shuddering breath caught in the static.
"He wasn't always a monster, Isla. He held me in his arms like I was holy. He whispered dreams into my skin. But loving him twisted in him—it turned into something possessive, something brutal. And before I knew what to make of it, I was already entrenched. I tried to flee. and I did. But not without scars."
Tears rolled down Isla's face.
"You were born of something real. Something hot that trailed the fire. But I never stopped being afraid of Victor's shadow. He hunted us, Isla. From a distance. And I think. part of him always believed I was his."
The tape hit its final seconds.
Isla sat frozen.
Victor had loved her mother. Owned her. And her mother—she hadn't been a victim. She had loved him too.
That understanding splintered across Isla's chest. The creature that had haunted her every waking moment wasn't some stranger her mother fled from. He was part of her mother's story. Part of what made her.
Behind her, the study door creaked.
Christopher.
He looked at her, at the face smeared with tears, the recorder held in her hand. His jaw clenched.
"You knew?"
Christopher inched closer, kneeling beside her.
"Not all of it. But enough to know Victor wasn’t just some villain in your mother’s past. He was her greatest mistake. and her greatest heartbreak."
Isla wiped her face, breath trembling.
"It changes everything."
Christopher gently took her hand.
"No, love. It just explains what you’ve always known: the line between love and destruction is razor thin. And Victor walked it without fear."
Isla pushed herself against him, the weight of the truth crushing her but also, strangely, freeing her.
Her mother had loved Victor Kane.
But Isla did not have to.
She would confront him—not as a daughter stuck in the echoes of the past, but as a woman determined to shatter the cycle.
Once and for all.
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