Chapter 5 - Elena Became the Mother Adrien's Four Children Had Been Waiting For, and the House Finally Learned What Love Looked LikeThe children changed.
Sofia began reading aloud.
Mia stopped sleeping with the lights on.
Noah stopped fighting.
Theo stopped having nightmares.
Adrien watched them.
One evening he said:
“You did what money couldn't.”
I smiled.
“I didn't do it alone.”
He looked at me.
“I know.”
He proposed.
I refused.
Not because I didn't love him.
Because I wanted my choice.
“I won't marry you because your family thinks I belong here.”
He nodded.
“I want you to marry me because you want me.”
Months passed.
He waited.
He never pressured.
Eventually, I said yes.
May you like
Not because I had become valuable.
Because I had become free.
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Chapter 7 - Elena's Parents Came to the Moretti Estate Expecting Their Daughter to Return—Instead, the Four Children Stood Between Them and HerRuth and Gordon arrived.
Chapter 8 - The Woman Who Believed She Could Never Be a Mother Gave Birth to a Miracle No Doctor Had PredictedA year later, Elena became pregnant.
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