Isabela ate it.
Then another.
Lucas entered the kitchen and collapsed to his knees, sobbing. The child was eating.
Later, Lucas learned the truth about Marina’s past. When he spoke to her, she broke down, afraid he’d think she was replacing Renata.
“You didn’t replace anyone,” Lucas said. “You saved my daughter.”
Relatives objected, calling the bond unhealthy. Lucas listened—briefly. When Marina was asked to stay away, Isabela regressed immediately.
Before sunrise, Lucas drove to Marina’s apartment and begged her to return.
When Isabela saw her again, she smiled and spoke her first clear word in months: “Marina.”
From then on, Marina became Isabela’s caregiver. Lucas moved Marina and her mother closer. Love grew slowly, gently.
A year and a half later, the house was full of laughter. Lucas proposed in the garden. Isabela insisted Marina say yes.
She did.
They married quietly. Isabela walked down the aisle. Marina carried photos of Renata and Bianca in her bouquet.
Years later, they welcomed a son, Mateus.
Pain never vanished—but love transformed it.
Three broken souls found one another.
And became a family.
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