Her Father Forced Her to Marry a Widowed Man in the Mountains — But She Never Expected to Find a Place She Could Truly Call Home

sticks and left them by the hearth for Ben. She hummed while cooking, not because anyone joined in, but because the silence had grown too heavy to bear alone.

At first, the children ignored all of it.

Then one morning Ellie noticed the wildflowers sitting in a cup of water. A few days later, Ben carried one of the carved sticks in his pocket.

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