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Velma’s POV
Five years later….
The night event with Theron changed my life in a way that I didn’t expect. Five years in which I had built a small, perfect world of my own, a world that revolved around Jaden, my little miracle, whose laughter and warmth could melt the darkest of fears, and Theron, steady, patient, and unwavering, who had loved me in ways I had never imagined possible, who had accepted my son as his own without question, and who had stood by me while I slowly put the pieces of my life back together.
In those years, I had rebuilt myself quietly, step by step, learning to trust again, learning that I was more than the shadows I had lived in, more than the girl who had hidden in corners, more than the wife who had been used and discarded.
I became the artist I had always
