Chapter 13 - THE YEAR AFTER MIAOne year later, the conservatory reopened.
The white roses were gone.
Adrian had donated the building to a foundation supporting women with pregnancy-related heart disease.
The recovered inheritance was placed into a trust for Grace.
Evelyn was convicted of conspiracy and fraud.
Adrian never visited her.
Celeste gave birth to a son.
The paternity test confirmed Adrian was not the father.
But he kept the trust he had created.
Because the child was innocent.
Adrian sold the penthouse.
He moved into a smaller house.
It had a garden.
The kind of house Mia had once described during their first year of marriage.
He learned to cook.
Badly.
He burned toast.
He kept photographs of Mia in a blue box.
For the day Grace became old enough to ask questions.
But Adrian's story did not end with Mia's death.
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Because the letter had left him with one final responsibility.
To become the man he should have been before she died.
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