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Two weeks later.The city air felt crisper than usual, or maybe Lia just noticed things more now, like how her chest didn’t ache every time she inhaled. The trauma hadn’t left; it was still curled beneath her ribs like a reminder. But she could breathe now. She could exhale without trembling.She sat at a café near the courthouse, a delicate pastry untouched on her plate, passport peeking from her purse.She hadn’t told many people she was leaving. Just Daph, her travel agent, and the lawyer. And now… the final chapter was being written.Her phone buzzed.Daph:He signed everything. Clean. No drama. You’re officially free. Want me to come?Lia stared at the message. The words echoed through her mind like a foreign anthem. Free.She typed back slowly.No. I need to do this part alone. I’ll see you before I go.She turned her face up to the sun and let it warm her skin. She hadn’t realized how cold she’d been. Even with luxury wrapped around her, she had been so cold.The waitress re
One Heart, Which Brother? Chapter 88
Chapter 88: "The One I Let Slip Away"RubenThe house was too quiet.He stood in the living room, the file from his lawyer crumpled in one hand — Divorce Proceedings.He hated the way her name looked next to his now.Like it was borrowed. Temporary. A mistake.“You really did it, Lia,” he muttered, dragging a hand through his disheveled hair. “You’re leaving.”He didn’t need anyone to tell him she wasn’t coming back. Not this time.He’d knocked on Daph’s door two nights in a row and hadn’t seen her once. She wouldn’t respond to his texts. She wouldn’t answer his calls. She’d vanished into Daph’s care, just like that, and she had every right to.He closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the cold marble wall, guilt slicing through his chest like glass. He remembered it all.The day he threatened her with her mother’s job.The day he used her nudes as leverage.The way she flinched the first time he touched her shoulder after the wedding.And somehow, in his twisted world of co
One Heart, Which Brother? Chapter 87
Daph watched Lia from across the kitchen island, arms folded, face unreadable.It had been three days since Lia’s mother’s funeral.Three long, silent days where grief wrapped around the penthouse like fog. Lia hadn’t left the guest room except to eat in silence or cry in the shower.But now… now she sat there, shoulders stiff, fingers wrapped around a chipped mug of tea.Daph knew something was coming.“You’re angry with me,” Lia finally said, her voice hoarse.“I’m not angry,” Daph said quietly. “I’m waiting. For the truth.”Lia looked up, her eyes hollow. "You want to know why I stayed with him?"“I want to know why you married him.”Silence.Then a breath. A shiver. A bitter, broken laugh.“I didn’t want to,” Lia whispered. “God, I didn’t even have a choice.”Daph's brows pulled together. “What do you mean?”Lia placed the mug down gently, like she was afraid it might shatter like her.“Remember last year? When I went missing for two days? When I came back saying everything was fi
One Heart, Which Brother? Chapter 86
Daph’s penthouse was too quiet, save for the sound of Lia’s breath hitching every few minutes as she stared out over the city skyline. A city that had cost her everything.Her mother was gone.Her heart shattered.Her trust in Ruben extinct.The woman she had buried just two days ago had barely started to live. She had just started her own business, just bought her own car. She had gone to the Delwuncos estate to deliver paperwork. Lia had helped her get that job and now she was gone. All because of a twisted world Lia hadn’t known Ruben was fully drenched in.She didn’t want to cry anymore. It felt like crying wouldn’t bring anything back. Not her mother. Not her innocence. Not the version of Ruben she had loved.Daph stepped into the room, a tray in her hand. Tea, again.“You haven’t eaten.”“I’m not hungry,” Lia said, eyes still fixed on the horizon.“You’ve said that every day since she died.”Lia turned slightly. “Because every day since then has been the same. Empty.”Daph’s hea
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Hospitals were supposed to bring hope. To give life a second chance. To stitch wounds and hold onto breath, even if it was barely there.But not today.Not for Lia.The call came just after midnight.She had just dozed off in the chair beside Daph’s bed when the ring pierced the silence. Cold. Shrill. Dreadful.She answered on the first ring.“Miss Delwunco…” the nurse’s voice cracked. “You need to come to the ICU. Now.”Her world spun.No breath. No heartbeat. Just silence.Lia ran.She didn’t think, didn’t wait. The corridors blurred around her, the hum of the hospital buzzing like static in her ears. She crashed through the ICU doors, her hands shaking, heart pounding against the walls of her chest.The monitors were flatlined.The bed was too still.And her mother her beautiful, strong, stubborn mother lay with her eyes closed, her skin pale like porcelain, as if she had simply fallen asleep.“No…” Lia whispered, stumbling forward. “No, no, no no!”The nurse tried to steady her. A
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The hospital room was dim, save for the monitors that blinked steadily, the only reminder that her mother was still alive… barely.Lia sat by the bed, her fingers trembling as she brushed a strand of her mother’s hair back. "I did this," Lia whispered, voice shaking. "I brought her into this world I was so desperate to escape."The door creaked open behind her. Daph limped in slowly, a white bandage wrapped around her forehead, trailing down to her eyebrow. Her eyes, tired but warm, scanned the room before settling on Lia.“You’re not sleeping,” Daph said softly.Lia didn't turn. “I don’t deserve to.”Daph sighed, lowering herself onto the couch against the wall. Her shoulder was stiff. Her head was still pounding from the crash. But none of that compared to the guilt she saw pouring out of Lia like a river that had snapped its dam.“She was so proud,” Lia murmured, eyes locked on her mother’s face. “She just got her license two months ago. Called me every day to tell me she practice
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