The Unwanted Wife and Her Secret Twins (Mia and Kyle) novel Chapter 326

Chapter 326 Falling into darkness

Chapter 326 Falling into darkness

Mia’s POV

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The apartment settled into silence around midnight, the kind of deep quiet that only comes when children have finally surrendered to sleep. I lay on my mattress listening to the symphony of their breathing–Alexander’s soft whistle through his nose, Ethan’s deeper, steadier rhythm, and Madison’s careful, shallow breaths that suggested she was still learning how to feel safe.

My body ached in places I hadn’t known could ache.

I pulled the blanket up to my chin and tried to focus on the weight of my children’s presence. Alexander had moved closer to Madison’s mattress in his sleep, one small arm flung out as if to protect her. Gas had positioned himself between all three beds like a furry sentinel.

My eyes grew heavy. The last thing I remembered was the sound of rain beginning to patter against the windows, gentle and constant like a lullaby.

Then I was somewhere else entirely.

I was seven years old again, standing in my mother’s art studio in the afternoon light. The room smelled like turpentine and hope. My mother was young–so young, with hair that fell past her shoulders in waves the color of autumn leaves. She wore a paint–stained apron over a sundress, and

her hands moved across the canvas like birds.

“See how the light hits the water here?” she was saying, adding a stroke of white to the painting of a lake. “Light isn’t just one color, baby. It’s all the colors mixed together, but our eyes can only see pieces of it at a time.”

I stood on my tiptoes to see better, my own small hands covered in finger paints. We’d been working on a picture of our family–stick figures with enormous smiles holding hands under a yellow sun.

“Mama, why do some colors disappear when you mix them?” I asked.

“They don’t disappear,” she said, crouching down to my level. Her eyes were bright and clear, unmarked by the exhaustion that would come later. “They just become part of something new.”

The studio was warm and golden, filled with canvases in various stages of completion. Paintings of flowers and landscapes and abstract swirls of color that made me think of music. This was before everything changed. Before my father brought Taylor and Helen home. Before the drinking and the shouting and the slow erosion of everything beautiful.

But even as I watched, the light in the studio began to change.

The dream shifted suddenly, violently, like a film reel snapping.

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Now I was six years old, sitting in that warehouse with Kyle. But something was wrong. The warehouse was spinning, slowly at first, then faster. The concrete walls blurred together, and the single lightbulb overhead swayed in dizzying circles.

“Kyle?” I called out, but my voice echoed strangely, as if the space had become infinitely large.

I couldn’t see him anymore. Where moments before he’d been tied to that chair, now there was only empty space. The pendant he’d given me felt heavy around my neck, burning against my skin.

I tried to run toward where he’d been, but my legs moved through something thick and resistant, like trying to run underwater. The spinning increased, and suddenly the warehouse floor gave way

beneath me.

I was falling into darkness.

When I landed, I was in a hallway filled with doors. Hundreds of them, stretching endlessly in both directions. Each door was painted a different color–red, blue, yellow, green–and from behind each

one came sounds. Crying, laughing, whispers, screams.

My children were behind one of these doors. I knew it with the certainty that comes only in dreams. Alexander, Ethan, and Madison were somewhere in this maze, and I had to find them.

I ran to the nearest door–painted bright red—and yanked it open. Inside was an empty room with

white walls. No children. Just silence.

The next door opened onto my old apartment with Kyle, but it was flooded with murky water up to my waist. I waded through, calling their names, but they weren’t there.

Door after door, room after room. A classroom filled with flying books. A hospital corridor that stretched forever. A playground where the swings moved by themselves.

“Alexander! Ethan! Madison!” My voice cracked with desperation. The hallway seemed to longer with each door I opened, the ceiling pressing lower.

grow

I could hear them now–their voices calling for me from somewhere, but I couldn’t tell which direction. The sound bounced off the walls, echoing and multiplying until it became a chorus of children calling “Mama! Mama!” and I couldn’t distinguish their voices anymore.

My hands were bleeding from pulling at door handles that cut like glass. Some doors wouldn’t open at all. Others opened onto rooms that had no floors, just empty space that pulled at me with invisible

hands.

The pendant around my neck grew heavier and heavier, dragging me toward the ground. I could feel myself getting weaker, moving slower, while my children’s voices grew more distant.

“Please,” I whispered to the empty hallway. “Please let me find them.”

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And then, from very far away, I heard Kyle’s voice: “Mia, wake

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