CHAPTER 223 — Between Nerves, Glances… and Family Ties

Martina’s house was filled with the kind of life no one could fake.

A life that cried, laughed, called for diapers from another room, and smelled like coffee mixed with baby soap, clean clothes folded in a hurry, and nerves quietly vibrating in the air.

Liam cried in a soft but determined little voice, as if he already knew the world answered every time he called. Olivia, Martina’s paternal grandmother, moved from room to room with an ener