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The Wife They Tried To Replace chapter One Hundred Fourteen
Dante’s POVValentina wouldn’t take my hand.I stood there with my fingers outstretched, watching her hold the little girl against her chest. She wasn’t crying. Somehow, that was worse.“Valentina, please.”She looked at the screen.“Did you choose me or the baby?”“I don’t remember.”“Look at me and answer.”“I can’t answer something I don’t remember doing.”She finally turned toward me.“Then help me remember.”I wanted to tell her I would. I wanted to promise that we would find the truth together, that whatever Helena had done could be undone.But the footage had shown me standing beside her hospital bed, covered in blood, while Helena offered me a choice.Save my wife.Or save a child.I couldn’t imagine a world in which I would willingly choose between them.Yet someone had recorded me doing exactly that.“I need to see the rest of the footage,” I said.Helena gave a quiet laugh.“There’s no rest.”I turned on her.“Then what was the point of showing it?”“To remind you that you
The Wife They Tried To Replace CHAPTER One hundred thirteen
Valentina’s POVThe gunshot was followed by a heavy thud.“Dante!”I couldn’t see anything. The room had plunged into complete darkness, and people were shouting from every direction.I reached for the nearest person, but my fingers caught only empty air.“Dante, answer me!”“I’m here!”His voice came from my left.I stumbled toward it, knocking into a chair. Someone grabbed my wrist.I screamed and tried to pull free.“It’s me!” Serena gasped. “It’s Serena!”I stopped fighting.“Where is Dante?”“I don’t know. Stay down!”Another shot rang out.A small hand slipped into mine.The little girl.I knew it was her before she spoke.“Mommy, I’m scared.”I pulled her against me.“It’s okay, sweetheart. I’ve got you.”I didn’t know whether that was true, but I couldn’t let her hear the fear in my voice.Emergency lights flickered on.The room appeared in fragments: Helena beside the wall, Elena crouched behind the cot, Serena on the floor, and Adrian leaning against the doorway.Dante was n
The Wife They Tried To Replace CHAPTER One Hundred Twelve
Dante’s POVValentina looked at me as though she no longer knew who I was.I couldn’t blame her.The photograph in Helena’s hand showed me holding a newborn outside a hospital. Valentina lay unconscious in the bed behind us, and the note on the back carried her signature.I AGREED TO GIVE HER AWAY.I had never seen that photograph before.But I remembered the hospital.I remembered the blood on my hands, the doctors refusing to answer my questions, and a nurse telling me that Valentina needed rest. I remembered being taken into a separate room and shown a baby I was told hadn’t survived.Most of all, I remembered the woman who had approached me afterward.My mother.She had looked me in the eyes and told me there was nothing left to save.I had believed her.That was the mistake I had spent years trying to correct.“Valentina, listen to me.”She shook her head.“Did you know about the photograph?”“No.”“Did you know about the baby?”I hesitated.Her face changed.“Dante.”“I knew you
The Wife They Tried To Replace CHAPTER One Hundred eleven
Valentina’s POVThe Ferraro estate had been abandoned for twenty years, but someone had recently been there.I noticed the lights first.Three floors of the old mansion stood in darkness, except for a single window on the upper level. A faint yellow glow spilled through the curtains, making the place look less abandoned than forgotten.The iron gates hung open.Dante parked several metres from the entrance and switched off the engine.Neither of us spoke immediately.I stared at the house, remembering what Adrian had told us.Don’t trust the woman who looks like Valentina. Both of them.I had no idea what that meant.One woman with my face was already enough to make me question everything I knew about myself. Now there were apparently two.Dante reached across the console and took my hand.“Whatever happens inside, stay close to me.”I looked at him.“You know I can’t promise that.”His jaw tightened.“Valentina.”“If one of our children is in danger, I’m going to help them. I’m not s
The Wife They Tried To Replace CHAPTER One Hundred Nine
Valentina’s POV“Which Valentina are you taking home?”Helena’s question kept playing in my head.I barely heard the children crying around me. All I could see was the woman lying on the floor, blood spreading beneath her white coat.She had my face.My name.And a birth certificate claiming she had been born six years before me.I looked at Dante.He was kneeling beside Adrian, pressing a hand against the wound in his father’s chest. Serena was shouting for someone to find a medical kit, while Emilia tried to gather the frightened children away from the open chambers.Nobody was looking at me.Nobody seemed to know what to do.I turned toward the woman.“Can you hear me?”Her eyelids fluttered.I dropped beside her and pressed my hands against the wound.“Stay with me. Please.”She caught my wrist.Her grip was surprisingly strong.“Don’t let them close the doors.”“Who shot you?”Her eyes moved toward the ceiling.“Helena.”A burst of static came from the speakers.Then Helena laugh
The Wife They Tried To Replace CHAPTER One Hundred Eight
Dante’s POVFor several seconds, nobody moved.Seven children stood behind the glass chambers, each wearing the same silver bracelet. Some looked frightened. Others stared at us with the strange stillness of children who had been taught not to ask questions.Then the little girl who looked like Valentina pressed both palms against the glass.“Mommy?”Valentina made a sound beside me.I caught her arm before she could rush forward.“Wait.”She turned on me, tears filling her eyes. “Dante, look at her.”“I see her.”“No, you don’t understand. She has my face.”I understood more than I wanted to.The girl’s dark hair fell across her forehead exactly as Valentina’s did when she woke up. Even the small birthmark beneath her left ear matched the one my wife had carried since childhood.But there was something else.The boy standing two chambers away had my eyes.Not similar eyes. Mine.He studied me without blinking, his little fingers curled around the edge of his blanket.I had spent year
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