CHAPTER 20: COFFEE AND CONFETTI (Six months after Juliette’s birth) The café smelled of burnt espresso beans and cinnamon. A scent Keira had come to associate with this new phase of her life. The After Isabella phase. Not that Isabella was gone, exactly. Just… transformed. Muted in some ways, amplified in others. A mother now. A wife. A person who used words like colic and reflux without irony. Keira stirred her oat milk latte, watching the foam swirl into a beige vortex. Outside, London was doing its best impression of summer. pale sunlight straining through a haze of pollution, tourists clutching maps and hope in equal measure. She’d chosen this café precisely because it was too trendy for strollers, too narrow for diaper bags. A sanctuary, however temporary. The bell above the door chimed, and there she was. Isabella, Bella now, to him, wearing a linen dress that probably cost more than Keira’s monthly ren
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