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Chapters
Chapter 1: The Blood Contract
Chapter 2: Moving into the Mansion
Chapter 3: Where Shadows Wait
Chapter 4: As Life Knocks Upon the Door
Chapter 5: His Child
Chapter 6: When the Call Came
Chapter 7: The Flame Beneath the Silence
Chapter 8: Cruelty in Silence
Chapter 9: Too Late for Redemption
Chapter 10: I Carried You Without Love
Chapter 11: The Letter Beneath the Dust
Chapter 12: The Scar Over His Heart
Chapter 13: The Glance That Shifted the Silence
Chapter 14: Petals and Pain
Chapter 15: A Fragment from That Year
Chapter 16 – The Man Who Held My Heartbeat
Chapter 17 – The Fracture Between Us
Chapter 18: The first flutter of emotions
Chapter 19 – Where Cracks Let the Light In
Chapter 20: Slumber and the Confession
Chapter 21: More Than Fabric
Chapter 22: A Step Closer
Chapter 23: His Past, My Present
Chapter 24: A Name Not Mine
Chapter 25: Warmth In The Midst Of Winter
Chapter 26: A Petal in the Evening Light
Chapter 27: The Child I’ll Never Hold
Chapter 28: The Echo of a Heartbeat
Chapter 29: His Coat, Her Smile
Chapter 30: Whispers Over the Line
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Chapter 27: The Child I’ll Never Hold
That morning began just like any other — with gentle sunlight spilling through the white curtains, with the soft rustle of leaves swaying in the early breeze, and with three familiar knocks echoing at the door, steady and precise.
Anna had grown used to it all. The orderly, almost meticulous rhythm...