SILVER IN THE SHADOWS
“Ryker…”
“I always blamed myself,” he whispered, the confession spilling out like a wound tearing open. “If I hadn’t cried that night, if I hadn’t needed her… maybe she would have lived. I carried that weight my whole life.”
I cupped his face, forcing him to look at me. “No. You were a child, Ryker. A child who needed his mother. That was never your fault.”
Tears slid down his cheeks, and I kissed them away.
“Afina,” I whispered again, my voice steady. “Then let our daughter carry her name. Not as a shadow of guilt, but as a light. Let Afina live again through her—strong, warm, remembered with love, not pain.”
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