Lahat ng Kabanata ng Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin : Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 113

(Millie POV)The silence broke when my mother finally spoke.“Well?” Adrianna’s voice was rough, as if it had scraped itself raw on the way out. “You’ve all forced your way into my house. Say what you came to say before I change my mind and put every one of you back in the hallway.”Daniel shifted near the kitchen counter. Richard remained standing close to me, not touching me, but near enough that I could feel the heat of him. I sat on the edge of the sofa with one hand on my stomach, the baby quiet under my palm, as if waiting to see whether this room would become safe or simply another battlefield.Daniel spoke first.“I came to own what I did,” he said. “The affair with Vivienne. Henry. The years I stayed gone and let other people carry the consequences. I am not here to ask for comfort. I am here because the truth is already in the open, and pretending otherwise only makes me more of a coward.”Adrianna turned on him with a bitterness that had years behind it. “Own it? You and Viv

(Adrianna’s POV)Music Background 🎵: [“Experience” – Ludovico Einaudi]The door closed behind them, and the apartment fell into a silence so complete it felt staged. I stood in the center of the living room and listened to the absence of voices. Millie’s. Richard’s. Daniel’s. All of them had filled the space with their confessions and decisions and then left me with the echo. The glass Daniel had used still sat on the kitchen counter. I picked it up and hurled it into the sink hard enough to crack it against the steel. The sound helped for less than a second.My daughter was leaving the country.The thought kept returning in different shapes, each one sharper than the last. Millie and that man were making plans around a baby I had not yet held, in a future that did not require my forgiveness to proceed. They had stood in my home and spoken about Singapore as if distance were a medical prescription. Perhaps it was. That possibility only made it worse.I paced the apartment until my le