Shadows Drift Beyond Memory by Xarin Vale novel Chapter 3

The password hadn’t changed.

I unlocked it and immediately searched for X–found it, opened the account, saw that same post, that same username,

My brain buzzed with white noise.

Before I even realized it, tears were streaming down my face.

I forced them back and opened his DMS–there it was, the chat with the guy who said he could fast–track the test results.

[Actually, I’m in Buffalo. How fast can you get the results?]

I closed X and went through the entire phone.

Turns out, he had so many secret accounts I didn’t know about.

On one of his messaging apps, he had a group chat with his crew called We Love Sienna Forever.

In it, Sienna kept trying to defend herself:

[I swear I didn’t mean to say it in front of everyone. Can you explain that to her for me?]

[She’s never liked me. Now she’s gonna hate me even more.]

The other guys backed her up, telling Callum not to blame her.

Callum didn’t reply for a while.

Then Sienna said:

[But seriously, we’ve been boys for years. I’m looking out for you. That baby really doesn’t look like you.]

[I don’t want you getting played. Imagine raising the kid for years and then finding out she’s not yours and your wife was cheating the whole

time.]

Callum just replied with two words: Shut up.

And then stopped responding.

Right after that, he posted on X.

I scrolled up.

There were photos of them all at a club together. Women draped all over Callum.

So all those times he said he was “busy at work“-he was busy partying with Sienna and picking up girls.

I actually laughed out loud.

It was so absurd it was almost funny.

I opened his TikTok next.

18:43

His Girl Bro Lied ‘Not His Baby‘–DNA Played Along, But Baby IS His!

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Sienna had been sending him thirst trap videos constantly.

[Way hotter than your boring wife, right? When’s the last time she looked like THAT?]

[Bro, I’m giving you my best stuff here and you’re still gonna ignore me?]

Callum replied: Get lost.

But Sienna kept messaging him anyway.

I scrolled up. She’d been sending him videos like this almost every day.

And every single one showed that he’d watched it.

Every message, every video, every lie–it all hit me at once.

I dropped the phone and sank to the floor, my chest so tight I couldn’t breathe.

So this whole time, Callum had been putting on a show with Sienna.

Their closeness never stopped. Not even once.

All his talk about love. About trust. About not lying to each other.

All of it was a lie.

For years, he and Sienna and the rest of them had been watching me play the fool.

Nausea crawled up my throat. I dragged myself off the floor just as I heard the nanny’s voice outside.

“Ma’am’s in the bedroom.”

The door opened.

Callum walked in, grinning.

“Babe, I took the day off. Where do you wanna go?”

His smile died the second he saw my pale face. “What’s wrong?”

He reached out to wipe my tears. I jerked away and looked at him with pure disgust.

I picked up the phone, opened the post, and held it up to his face.

“So. Did you get the paternity test done yet?”

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