Nine Months of Deception: The CEO's Hidden Heir Novel - Chapter 413

Sebastian’s POV

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The constant murmur of the torrential rain against the kitchen windows was the only sound that broke the heavy silence of the ground floor. It was past four in the afternoon, and the house breathed a still, dense air, heavy with the melancholy typical of gray days at the end of September.

I looked up at the ceiling, fixing my gaze on the exact spot where ! knew our master bedroom was. Just twenty minutes earlier, I had carried Gianna to bed. The pain of colic had her curled up, her face pale and her lips pressed together in a grimace of silent suffering that broke my heart. Before falling into a deep sleep thanks to the effect of the painkiller and the hot tea, Leo had snuggled up beside her, pressing his small back against his mother’s abdomen, as if he sensed, with that pure instinct of children, that she

needed his warmth.