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CHAPTER 24: The Unseen Wife

Author: Lovely
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-09 18:10:00

The Moretti mansion was too quiet that morning, not the peaceful kind of silencebut the kind that felt heavy, like something important was missing. The sunlight got in through the large windows but it didn’t warm the house.

In the kitchen, Emilia sat at the counter drawing quietly with a pink crayon, her small hands moved slowly and her tongue stuck out the way it always did when she focused but this time, her picture wasn’t of a castle or a princess or her favorite stuffed cat.

It was of a house broken down the middle one side had two people holding hands the other side had only one.

Vivianna stood by the stovestirring a pot of oatmeal even though she knew Emilia probably wouldn’t eat it , she watched her daughter from the corner of her eye, her chest tightened

“Sweetheart” she said gently “do you want anything with your oatmeal?”

Emilia shook her head, no.

“When is Papa coming home?” she asked not looking up from her drawing.

Vivianna hesitated. “Soon” she said forcing a smile.
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