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Learning To Be Alone

Author: Kim Nana
last update publish date: 2026-10-06 17:00:12

Daniel stood in the middle of the kitchen, staring at the ingredients spread across the counter.

Chicken. Vegetables. Rice. A bottle of cooking oil. Three different spices. And a recipe on his phone that looked far more complicated than it had any right to be.

He frowned. “How hard can this be?”

He had watched Ann cook countless times.

She would move around the kitchen effortlessly, preparing breakfast while reminding Kiel to get dressed, answering Dan
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  • Winning Her Back    Hope Rekindled

    The morning after Kiel's birthday, Ann woke up expecting everything to feel different. It didn't. The apartment was still quiet. The sunlight still slipped through the curtains. Kiel was still asleep in his room, sprawled across his bed with one leg outside the blanket. And Ann was still alone. She made breakfast, packed Kiel's lunch, and prepared herself for work. She didn't allow herself to think too much about the laughter she had shared with Daniel the previous day. It had been a beautiful moment but it was only a moment. Ann had learned the hard way that moments were not enough. Promises were not enough. Apologies were not enough. What mattered now was consistency. She was fastening Kiel's schoolbag when her phone rang. It was Daniel. She stared at his name for several seconds before answering. “Hello?” “Good morning.” His

  • Winning Her Back    A Mother's Regret

    Ann was folding Kiel’s clothes when there was a knock on the apartment door. She paused. Kiel was sitting on the floor nearby, arranging his toy cars into a crooked line across the rug. “Mommy, I think someone is here.” “I heard, sweetheart.” Ann walked toward the door slowly. She wasn't expecting anyone. Daniel had been calling more often lately, but she had made it clear that she needed space. Her workplace had finally begun settling after the rumors, and she didn't want anything else disturbing the fragile peace she had built. She looked through the peephole. Her heart sank. Daniel's mother stood outside. For several seconds, Ann simply stared. There had been a time when seeing her mother-in-law would have made her straighten immediately, wondering whether she had done something wrong. Those days were gone. Ann opened the door. “Good afternoon.”

  • Winning Her Back    Kiel's Birthday

    The apartment was filled with the smell of chocolate cake and warm food. Balloons covered one side of the living room, some floating near the ceiling while others were tied to the backs of chairs. A large number seven hung above the small table where Kiel's birthday cake sat, decorated with his favorite cartoon characters. Kiel had been awake since dawn. “Mommy! Mommy! Today is my birthday!” Ann laughed as she helped him get dressed. “I know, sweetheart.” “You said I could have two pieces of cake.” “I said you could have cake.” “Two pieces.” Ann shook her head. “One piece first.” Kiel frowned. “That's not fair.” “Life isn't always fair.” “But today is my birthday.” Ann laughed again. “All right. We'll negotiate later.” Kiel grinned and ran out of the room. For the first time in we

  • Winning Her Back    The Investigation

    The moment Daniel saw Olivia’s name on the evidence, something inside him went cold. He stared at the screenshots again, reading every message carefully. There were conversations between Olivia and an unknown account. Instructions about what picture to use. Messages discussing how to make the rumor believable. Even a message telling someone to “make sure it reaches Ann’s workplace.”Daniel’s jaw tightened. He had spent the entire day angry at Ann. He had looked at that photograph and convinced himself she had already moved on. He had allowed his pride and hurt to fill in the blanks. He had accused her without asking for the truth.But now another possibility stood in front of him. What if Ann had never betrayed him? What if the entire thing had been created?Daniel grabbed his phone. He called the number attached to the anonymous message. It rang twice before going straight to voicemail. He tried again. Nothing. His eyes returned to the screenshots. There

  • Winning Her Back    Standing Tall

    Ann barely slept that night. Daniel's words kept replaying in her mind. “I thought you were different.”She had spent years trying to be the woman he wanted. A good wife. A devoted mother. A supportive partner. She had sacrificed her comfort, her time, and pieces of herself just to keep their family together. And now, because of one fake photograph, he was looking at her as though she had betrayed him.That morning, Ann arrived at work with tired eyes while still trying to hold her head high.She expected whispers. She expected judgment. What she didn't expect were the cameras. Several reporters were gathered outside the building.The moment Ann stepped out of her car, flashes went off.“Ann!”“Is it true that you cheated on Daniel?”“Who is the man in the photograph?”“Were you already seeing someone before leaving your husband?”“Did Daniel know about the relationship?”Ann stopped. For a mom

  • Winning Her Back    Another Lie

    Olivia stared at the photograph on her phone. Ann was smiling in it. She looked happy. Too happy. Olivia's jaw tightened. That smile had become an insult to her. If Daniel was going to keep thinking about Ann, Olivia needed to change the story.She needed people to see Ann differently. Her eyes moved to another photograph. A picture of a man Ann had once worked with. The photograph had been taken months ago at a professional event. The man was standing beside Ann, and both of them were smiling.It was innocent. But Olivia didn't care. She opened an editing application.Within minutes, she had cropped the photograph and altered the framing until it looked as though Ann and the man had been photographed together privately.Then she added another picture. This one showed the man walking near a building. Olivia combined the images carefully. It wasn't perfect. But it didn't need to be. People rarely investigated rumors before believing them.

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