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“Why… why would you want to change the piano teacher all of a sudden?”
“Yeah, Vivi, Aaro has grown fond of this teacher, and I think he’s doing a good job. There’s really no need to switch, right?”
Eden’s parents carefully tried to persuade me, their eyes full of probing.
I lowered my gaze, hiding the mockery in my eyes, and nodded in agreement.
“Alright, I’ll take your advice and leave things as they are.”
Only then did they finally seem to relax.
Immediately, Eden’s mother spoke up again:
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“By the way, Vivi, Mrs. Daves from next door -her son bought her a scooter. I think it’s great for shopping and running errands.”
“Eddie’s father and I are getting older, our legs aren’t what they used to be, and I…”
Her tone, coaxing and gentle, only made me feel amused.
Since I married Eden, I had treated them as my own parents, trying to take care of them. Over the past four years, I’d bought them a house, bought all kinds of supplements.
Eden’s parents had originally been just ordinary workers, frugal and hardworking. But now, they seemed more like retired elders with a hefty pension, their bodies round with prosperity, unable to hide their new wealth.
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I knew exactly what Eden’s mother was getting at.
If this were yesterday, I would have probably rushed to take them to see the car without hesitation.
But today, all I felt was irritation.
Fortunately, a phone call from my secretary provided me with a perfect excuse to make a graceful exit.
Sitting in the car, I looked at the message Eden had sent me on my phone and couldn’t help but let out a derisive laugh.
[Vivi, I took Aaro for a walk. Daisy happened to be going to the mall, so I brought her along too.]
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Such an open tone, I couldn’t find a single flaw in it.
If I hadn’t already seen Daisy’s post on her social media…
There, Eden and Aaro were smiling brightly at the camera, while Daisy stood in between them, looking like the happy wife and mother in a family portrait.
[The best part of the weekend–shopping together at the supermarket!]
I only had time to glance at that post before it disappeared.
It must be that Daisy forgot to block me.
How many more photos like that had she posted, in places I couldn’t see?
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I had no way of knowing.
I ignored Eden’s words and drove back home.
Sitting at the piano bench, I found Aaro’s hair. Then, I discovered a long strand of light brown hair that didn’t belong to me.
Carefully collecting the hair, I headed to the office and handed it over to my secretary, instructing her to find a trustworthy doctor.
Some things, though I already had my suspicions, still required solid proof.
The secretary didn’t ask any questions and left my office.
As I glanced at the family photo on my desk, I thought back to the rainy night when I first met Aaro.
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At that time, Eden and I had been married for barely a year. After dinner at a restaurant, we had barely walked a few steps when we saw Aaro standing alone under a large tree, trying to shield himself from the rain.
He was dressed so thinly, trembling, his small face pale with the cold.
It immediately reminded me of myself back then.
I stopped in my tracks, and just as I was about to speak to Eden, Aaro collapsed from exhaustion.
It was that very encounter that led me to suggest bringing Aaro into our home, to adopt him.
I thought it was destiny.
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I didn’t realize, however, that it had all been part of Eden’s plan.
It’s almost laughable.
In four years of running my company, I had earned a reputation as a sharp, shrewd businesswoman.
Yet when it came to love, I poured my heart into it and ended up with nothing but a devastating loss.
That night when I got home, Eden had already prepared dinner.
He hadn’t gone to work in all these years, taking care of everything at home himself.
At the dinner table, Eden hesitated before asking, “Vivi, Dad and Mom said they saw
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you at the hospital today. Are you feeling unwell?”
I paused, lifted my gaze to meet his, and smiled. “No, I was just getting a check–up.”
“What if… what if you poisoned me?”
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