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Dexter blinked in surprise, then quickly headed toward Silas’s room.
Kaia had just initiated a video call with her daughter. Brynlee’s adorable little face filled the screen. She was lying on her stomach on the sofa, resting her chin in her hands, enthusiastically recounting the funny things that happened at school today. Kaia responded with soft laughter, unable to tear her eyes away from her daughter’s sweet face.
The salty ocean breeze drifted in through the open balcony doors.
Just then, there was a knock at the hotel door. Still holding her phone, Kaia walked over and opened it. Finnian was standing outside, one hand resting on the doorframe, the other stuffed in his pocket. He looked as though he had been standing there for quite a while.
‘Are you on the phone with Brynlee?” Finnian asked softly, hearing their daughter’s voice drifting from the speaker.
Brynlee heard her dad’s voice and immediately chirped, “Mommy, is Daddy there? Let me see him!”
Kaia had no choice but to hand the phone over. Finnian took it. On the screen, their daughter’s eyes sparkled. He smiled and started chatting with her, asking if she had been a good girl today and if she missed him. t was their usual clingy, repetitive father-daughter banter, but neither of hem ever seemed to get tired of it.
Kaia brewed a cup of floral tea, walked out onto the balcony, and sat down. She sipped her tea while gazing at the moonlight shattering across the surface of the ocean.
A few minutes later, the call ended. Finnian walked over, handed her the phone, and stood behind her.
They both stared out at the same stretch of ocean in silence.
Gripping her phone, Kaia was just about to ask him when he planned on
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leaving so she could sleep, but Finnian beat her to it.
“What do you think of Silas?”
Kaia’s fingers tightened around her phone. Without looking at him, she kept her eyes on the distant horizon and replied, “He’s a good guy. He takes his work seriously, he’s genuine, and he respects boundaries.”
Finnian stood rigidly. Hearing her list off Silas’s positive traits made it painfully clear that she had a great impression of him.
For some inexplicable reason, a suffocating wave of jealousy flooded his chest.
“Yeah, he’s great,” Finnian forced himself to say with manufactured calm. “Young, passionate, proactive, and intense.”
Kaia ignored whatever bizarre mood swing he was having and practically shooed him away. “It’s late. You should go. I need to get some sleep.”
Finnian wanted nothing more than to stay a little longer. He wanted to discuss her brilliant performance today. He wanted to praise her, to tell her how incredible she was-just like he used to. But the words withered
on his tongue.
When he was her husband, he could say those things naturally, without
hesitation. And now?
Now, he was just her ex-husband. He had forfeited the right to be that
man.
With a heavy heart, he turned and left her room, the suffocating pressure in his chest leaving him utterly breathless.
Meanwhile, at the Sanders Estate!
Pearl brought a bowl of chicken soup upstairs and knocked lightly on the bedroom door. The door was ajar. Noelle sat on the edge of the bed, her eyes red, clearly having just cried.
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