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Emília remained where she was — soaked, trembling… but unbroken.
He didn’t know that the man who loved her now never missed a single doctor’s appointment, spoke to their unborn child every night, and had restored everything Ricardo tried to destroy: her safety, her confidence, her sense of worth.
Days later, at a business gala broadcast live, Ricardo nearly dropped his glass when he saw her enter the room — composed, radiant, pregnant, her husband at her side. A name was announced that made the entire hall rise in reverence.
Happy. Secure. Untouchable.
That was the moment Ricardo finally understood.

The mud he threw at her that day never stained her.
It only revealed who he had always been.
And who Emília had become.
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