THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL CHAPTERS CONSISTS OF MARGARET'S POINT OF VIEW. BEWARE OF THE FAST-PACING AND SKIPPING TIMELINE. Several years ago… At Calista's fourth birthday. MARGARET'S P. O. VThe saccharine sweetness of Calista’s fourth birthday party hung heavy in the air, a cloying perfume of sugared happiness that grated on my nerves.I watched from the periphery, a shadow lurking in the brightly lit corner of Arnaldo Sy’s opulent garden. His laughter, booming and unrestrained, echoed around me, a cruel mockery of the emptiness gnawing at my soul. He was the sun, radiating warmth and joy, and his family, his radiant wife, Isabella, and their cherubic daughter, were the planets orbiting his brilliance. They were a constellation of perfect happiness, and I, a lone, dark star, was consumed by its blinding light.Isabella, a vision in a pastel sundress, knelt beside Calista, her face alight with a love that felt both alien and intensely desirable. Calista, a miniature replica of her father
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