It had been a beautiful night—the kind of night that felt touched by magic.

Perhaps that's why their child chose that moment to arrive.

But Stewart learned about it all far too late.

Was this what people called karma?

Somewhere deep within the hallway of his dream, a voice echoed through the shadows-

"Stewart, you are the most despicable man I've ever known."

"You've never once acknowledged the pain you and your family inflicted on me. From the very beginning, you only ever asked yourself two questions: 'Can I use her?' and 'Will she take good care of Irwin?' This marriage-what you needed wasn't a wife, but a perfectly placed pawn."

"In Ghana, there's a divorce tradition: couples who once loved each other, after everything falls apart, return to the very place they wed, dressed in their wedding clothes. The idea is to go back to where love began and let everything go, ending things together."

"But Stewart, we never loved each other. We never even had a wedding. So your grand divorce ceremony was doomed to be a farce from the start!"

"From this day on, Stewart, you're nothing but the executioner who indirectly killed my mother. We're better off strangers than ever meeting again!”

At the end of the corridor, Briony stood there in a white wedding dress.

He saw her and tried to reach her.

Briony turned away and ran out of the hall-

Stewart chased her all the way to the beach.

mist rolled in from the sea; Briony stopped, half-shrouded in fog. Her voice was cold and

you ever let me go, Stewart? The ones who gave me life, and the one I gave life to, all gone because of you. And now I'm gone, too. Is this what

life after this, I pray I never meet you

her words faded, flames

widened in horror.

the dress before he

breath coming in ragged gasps as he stared

his side in an instant. "You're

mind snapped into

a dream. Just

out a heavy sigh of relief and slowly pushed himself upright

pressed a hand to his aching brow. "What happened

and then slipped into a

Three days and nights?

cold weight settled in Stewart's

cremated this morning. Her burial

"What did you say?!"

swung his legs over the

arrangements were

"I don't believe it!"

Carl, heading for the

Their daughter is still

"The little one passed away

froze. He turned slowly, stiffly, to face Carl, his dark

expression right now was enough to terrify anyone he couldn't meet Stewart's gaze. Instead, he looked down and spoke

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