Forgotten Wife Let the traitors kneel Down (by Patricia Maradiaga) novel Chapter 346

Part II: Promises and Lies

The days passed quietly, Abril and Alessandro felt happy because they could finally be reunited with their daughter. That day they had a picnic, they were in the garden under a large tree, watching Lissana who smiled at them cheerfully and ran around chasing a butterfly.

Alessandro hugged Abril and said, “Right now, I’m very happy, I feel like the happiest man in the world. I

wish this would last forever.”

Abril felt like she had already lived that moment. Suddenly, tears rolled down her cheeks, and Alessandro

asked her nervously, “What’s wrong, Aby?!”

“Remember the dream I had before Lissana was born?”

“The one where the three of us were happy.”

“Yes.”

“That dream is this moment. I don’t know what will become of us, or if we will be together in the future.

From now on, everything is uncertain. I have nothing to hold on to.”

“Aby, the future is always uncertain, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. We will work to make our future good,

to be happy.”

Alessandro wiped Abril’s tears and said, “Don’t worry about what will come. Let’s enjoy the now, because

it’s what we have.”

Abril had always lived one day at a time. She wondered when she had stopped living one day at a time

and had become obsessed with her future, thus ignoring her present. She looked at Lissana, her precious

daughter. In the past, she had nothing to love, nor anyone to love her, but at that moment she had a family, something she never thought she could have in her life.

I have to stop being so selfish, she thought as her gaze shifted from Lissana to Alessandro.

“You’re right, I lost my focus for a moment, forgetting what truly matters. Thank you for reminding me,

Lessan.”

Alessandro gave her a gentle kiss on the lips and said, “I know all this is very difficult, that sometimes it’s

hard to see beyond the problems, but remember that nothing bad lasts a thousand years.”

Lissana ran up to them, and seeing the trace of tears in her mother’s eyes, she asked, “Mom, why are you

crying? Are you sad? Does something hurt?”

Abril opened her arms to receive her little one, hugged her, and said, “Of course not, my tears are of happiness, because I can finally have you by my side and hug you whenever I want. That makes me immensely happy, so much so that I can’t help but let the tears fall.”

“I am also very happy to be with my parents. Although Aunt Maya and Uncle Cassian have always been with me, I always felt like something was missing. Tarik and Uzziel always seemed very happy when they

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were with their parents. I wanted that too, I also wanted to be with my family.

Abril kissed her forehead and replied, “I’m sorry, my girl, for not being there for you, for missing your first words, your first steps, for not picking you up when you were learning to walk, for not tucking you in at night, or reading you a bedtime story, for not being there to give you all the love you needed.”

Alessandro joined the hug and said, “Forgive us for not watching you grow and missing those invaluable moments of your life.”

Lissana said nothing, she just stayed clinging to her parents‘ arms, wishing she wouldn’t have to be

separated from them again.

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Tarik always went to the place where the portal to the human world had opened. He would stare at that

place, wishing it would open and he could see Lissana again, but that didn’t happen. The days passed, and

he still didn’t know anything about his friend.

During one of his training sessions, Tarik asked his father about the human world and if Lissana would be

okay. His father’s answer made him even more worried, not because it was a bad place, but because he

feared Lissana might decide not to return to the land of fairies. He was afraid she would forget him and

never see her again.

On Tarik’s birthday, he stood all day in front of that place waiting for Lissana because she had promised to

return for his birthday, but the day ended and Lissana did not come back.

Fay approached his son and asked, “What are you doing here, Tarik?”

“I’m waiting for Lissana. She promised she would be here for my birthday.”

Fay placed a hand on his son’s small shoulder and said, “She won’t come.”

“Yes, she will; she promised me and I believe her.”

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