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(JARED'S POV)

Eight months—it’s been eight months, but it feels like an eternity. My life has spiraled in ways I never anticipated, and not for the better. Sofia and I... we were never meant to be. I see that now.

What started as an escape—maybe from my own demons—has become another prison, one I built with my own hands. Regret gnaws at me, but it’s too late. Too late to fix what I’ve broken.

The moment Sofia lost the baby, everything changed. I wasn’t ready for it—not for the life she carried, and certainly not for its loss. But as the weight of the grief sank in, I realized it wasn’t just her child I was mourning.

It was the child I lost with Arielle.

The one I could have had. The one I wasn’t there for.

I can still hear Sofia’s voice from that day—shrill, desperate. It rings in my ears even now, haunting me in quiet moments.

(Flashback)

I was knee-deep in paperwork, trying to escape into the dull routine of the office when my phone buzzed on my desk. Sofia’s name flashed on the scr
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Hud Jos
How the child 3 and she left 3 years before pregnant?
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Lisa Tomkosky Pooley
I’m happy she’s with Dwayne but she needs to be honest and upfront about the sex part. I hope she falls in love with him. He’s thousands of times better than that loser Jared.
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Asnika Kebede
I wander how Jared react to Arielle and Maverick now. I just hope Jared wasn't stupid enough to raise another man's child and marry the stupid awful Sophia.
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