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Chapter 101

Liena POV Her words replayed in my head the whole ride back to the car. We just pray the moon goddess blesses her with a good man soon. Someone who can take care of her, so she doesn't have to work herself into the ground like this. I didn't know how to explain it to her. I didn't know how to tell a sweet old woman who had just fed me dinner that her daughter was not a hardworking secretary sending money home. Her daughter was the reason I had been dragged into a van with a bag over my head and driven three hours outside the city to kidnap me. Her daughter had paid good money to have me disappeared, just long enough so she can slide back into Kael's life and play house with him and Ethan, the perfect little family she must have imagined in her head. The wife. The husband. The son. No me standing in the middle of it. Thinking about it while sitting in that warm dining room, eating food that woman had made with her own hands, made something twist low in my stomach. These people had

Chapter 102

Liena POV I could see how those words broke something in Helena. It was small, barely there, just a tightening around her eyes and a stiffness in the way she held her shoulders, but I caught it. Elena's scolding hit her harder than any slap could have. Helena was not the kind of woman who liked being corrected, and definitely not the kind who liked being corrected in front of me. She didn't like it at all. I could tell. "I'm sorry, Luna Elena," Helena said after a moment, her voice quiet, her eyes dropping to the floor. "I didn't mean it that way." "See that you don't," Elena said, still cool, before turning back to me with a warmth that felt like sunlight after standing in the cold. "Liena, sweetheart, come sit down. You must be tired from the drive." I gave her a small smile and let her lead me further into the room, but I made sure to glance back at Helena one more time before I did. "It's alright," I said to her, my voice light and pleasant, the kind of tone you'd use with so

Chapter 103

Liena POV The words hit Helena unexpectedly. Ethan’s small voice had been soft, almost careless, but the way he spoke about me, calling me the one who smelled like home, the one whose arms felt safer than anything else, broke something deep inside her. Her face went pale and her hands tightened. She wasn’t just upset. She was breaking and hurt. Right there in front of us, the perfect mask she always wore started to slip, and I could almost scent the fear and rage mixing in the air. But Helena forced a shaky laugh that sounded more like a choke and spun toward Ethan, her smile too wide, too soft towards her boy. “Baby, don’t say things like that. Never say that again, okay? You’re just a little boy. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Her voice stayed light, the way adults talk when they’re trying to cover something ugly. She knelt down and brushed his hair back, but her fingers trembled. “I’m your mom. I’ve always been here. That other talk is just silly kid stuff. Forget

Chapter 104

Liena POV The threat sat there heavy in the air between us. I didn't step back. I let Helena's words settle into me, cold, and I felt nothing move in my chest. No fear. No anger. Just a stillness. Helena's chest rose and fell fast, her fists still clenched at her sides in fury she’s trying so hard to control but it’s too late. Her eyes were wet now, rimmed red, but her jaw stayed tight like she refused to let herself cry in front of me. She looked like a woman standing on the edge of something she couldn't take back. Then I heard it. A small voice, soft and steady, coming from behind me. "Mommy Liena." I turned. Ethan stood a few feet away, near the corner of the hallway, half hidden by the shadow of the wall. His small hands were balled into fists at his sides, and his little face, usually so calm and unreadable, was tight with something I had never seen on him before. Not confusion. Not fear. Something closer to anger. I didn't know how long he had been standing there. Long en

Chapter 105

Liena POV Ethan let go of my leg. He turned and started walking down the hallway, his small feet moving fast, like he had somewhere important to be. I watched him go, his fists still balled at his sides. Helena scrambled up from the floor. "Ethan, wait…" She went after him, her voice cracking. "Baby, listen to me. You heard it wrong. Mommy didn't mean what she said. Come back here, please." He didn't stop. He didn't even slow down. He kept walking, small and stubborn, heading straight for the sitting room where the voices of the family carried through the open doorway. Helena caught up to him and reached for his shoulder, but he shrugged her off without looking at her. "Ethan, please," she begged, her voice thin now, stripped of the calm she always wore like a second skin. "Don't do this. Whatever you think you heard…" "I heard you," he said again, flat and sure, the same words he'd said to her minutes ago. I followed behind them, quiet, my face still. I didn't try to stop him.

Chapter 106

Liena POV The door opened behind me before I could say anything more. I heard his footsteps first, heavy and familiar, and then Kael's voice cut through the tension in the room. "What's going on in here?" I turned. He stood in the doorway, his eyes moving between us, confusion and something sharper settling on his face. That was when Helena moved. It happened so fast I almost didn't catch it. She stumbled backward, one hand flying to her chest, and let herself drop toward the floor near the edge of the bed. Her knee hit the carpet with a soft thud, and she gasped like the wind had been knocked out of her. "Kael," she cried, her voice trembling, thin as glass. "Kael, help me." He rushed past me without a second thought, kneeling beside her, his hands hovering over her shoulders like he was afraid to touch her wrong. "Helena, what happened? Are you hurt?" "She pushed me," Helena said, pointing a shaking finger at me, tears already spilling down her cheeks like she had been cryin

Chapter 107

Liena POV For a moment, nobody moved. The room held its breath, waiting to see which way Kael would turn. Then he stepped back from her, just a small step, but it felt like a canyon opening between them. "Stop it, Helena," he said. His voice was flat, low, the kind of low that meant he was holding something back. "Ethan wouldn't make that up. He's five, not stupid. He doesn't know how to invent something like that on his own, and you know it." Helena's mouth opened, but he kept talking, cutting through whatever she was about to say. "And Liena wouldn't say that to me. Not like that. Not in those words." He rubbed a hand down his face, tired in a way I hadn't seen from him in a long time. "I've known her for ten years, Helena. We've been married for most of them. I know when she's lying and when she isn't, and she isn't lying right now." For a second, just a second, I saw something real on Helena's face. It wasn't hurt. It wasn't fear. It was rage, pure and cold, there and gone s

Chapter 108

Liena POV "Why should I?" The words came out before I could stop them, sharp and tired all at once. "Kael, she is not sick. You know that. I know that. Why are you asking me to bend around a lie?" His face didn't move. That was the part that hurt the most, that there was nothing there for me to push against, no crack I could find and pull open, no flicker of doubt I could work with. He stood there like a wall, arms loose at his sides, his voice level in a way that felt almost rehearsed. "It's not about her," he said. "Ethan needs someone to cook his meals. Someone he can trust to pack his lunch, to make sure he eats something warm before school. I can't keep asking the kitchen staff to guess what he likes, and I can't have him picking at cold food because nobody thought to check. I need you to do it." He paused, and something in his voice shifted, just barely, the smallest give in an otherwise flat tone. "At least for him. He's your son now too, Liena. Whatever is happening between

Chapter 109

Liena POV I smile curving his face. "I’m making your favorite.” I add. “Smells good," he said, climbing onto the stool, his usual spot now, like he had claimed it without either of us saying a word about it. "Chicken stew," I said. "And I made you softrice on the side, since I know you don't like it too dry." He grinned at that, pleased that I remembered. I ladled the stew into a bowl and set it in front of him, then sat across the counter and watched him eat. He ate the way most boys of his age eat, messy and fast, more interested in talking than chewing properly, and I found myself smiling without meaning to. There was something about watching a child eat food I made with my own hands that settled a part of me I didn't know was still restless. When he finished, I wiped his face with a cloth even though he tried to dodge it, laughing the whole time, and then I walked him up to his room. He changed into his pajamas by himself, proud of it, showing me how he could button the top

Chapter 110

Liena POV News? What news? I typed back, "No, what is it?" The reply came almost instantly, a link with no other explanation. I tapped it, and the screen filled with a headline that made my stomach drop and something else, something colder. Pack Luna's Wife Exposed: The Orphan Story Was a Lie. This was the headline. Below it were pictures. A modest but well-kept house somewhere upstate, a mansion that looked freshly built, its stone walls pale and new against green lawns. An older woman standing on the porch, her face carrying the same cheekbones and the same calculating eyes I had come to know too well. A man beside her, silver-haired, his arm around her shoulder, both of them smiling for the camera like people who had nothing at all to hide. These were the same pictures I and Mara took when we visited Helena’s parents anonymously. I scrolled through the article slowly, my heart pounding excitedly with every paragraph. Neighbors quoted by name, saying they had lived next door t

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