Divorce Failed! My Wife's Secret Identities Shock the World novel Chapter 255

Molly didn't want to leave either.

She'd finally gotten a rare chance to be in the same room with Andres. If she missed it, who knew when the next opportunity would come?

But in the manor, Butler Tanner's authority was second only to Mrs. White's. When he ushered people out, they went.

Dr. Foster and Molly filed out reluctantly.

Once the door shut, the room fell quiet.

Maeve sat beside the bed. "How do you know my mom?"

Andres leaned close and murmured into Maeve's ear, "She's my mom… which means she's yours now too." Then, louder, to Sofia: "Mom, this is Maeve—the girl I told you about."

Sofia's eyes lit up. "So you're Serenity's daughter—and my daughter-in-law."

She took Maeve's hand and patted it softly, affection flooding her face.

"If I hadn't seen you with my own eyes, I'd never believe two people could look this alike. Genetics really are something."

"Sweetheart, you look almost exactly like your mother did when she was young."

Andres asked, curiosity rising, "Mom, were you close with Maeve's mother back then?"

Sofia smiled, the memory warming her. "Close? We were inseparable. Serenity and I were best friends."

Sofia had gone to school up North.

Not long after graduating, she'd been swept off to Aethelburg by Caden White—charming, dangerous, and impossible to resist. Her friends scattered across the country, across the world.

Then Sofia found out she was pregnant.

The White family wasn't an ordinary family. And Sofia was the only woman Caden ever publicly acknowledged as wife material.

Her safety became priority number one.

Sofia was emotionally intelligent enough not to push.

She smiled and steered them away from the pain.

"When we were in school, I used to joke with Serenity," Sofia said, "that when we both grew up, got married, and had kids, we'd marry them off to each other."

"Serenity had incredible genes. Boy or girl, her kids were bound to be beautiful."

"And why let something that good go to strangers? As her best friend, I had to put in a reservation early."

Andres couldn't help teasing. "So Maeve and I were arranged before we were even born?"

It was a joke, but warmth spread through his chest anyway.

To think there was a thread like this tying them together—long before either of them existed.

Sofia's eyes shone, overwhelmed by her own emotion. "The world is huge," she murmured, squeezing Maeve's hand, "and somehow it's still small."