Chapter 16 - THE NIGHT OF THE ACCIDENTNoah was nine when he was involved in a serious accident.
A car ran a red light.
The impact sent him to the hospital.
Sophia arrived first.
Ethan arrived minutes later.
For hours, they sat outside the operating room.
Neither spoke.
They simply held hands.
Not as husband and wife.
Not as lovers.
As two parents terrified of losing their child.
When the doctor finally came out, Noah was alive.
He would recover.
Sophia broke down.
Ethan held her.
She did not push him away.
For the first time in ten years, she cried against his chest.
“I thought I was going to lose him.”
“So did I.”
They remained like that.
Then Sophia pulled away.
The moment passed.
But something had changed.
Pain had reminded them that beneath the anger, betrayal, and years of separation—
they were still connected.
Through Noah.
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Through history.
Through everything they had once been.
