Cradle of secrets
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She was hired to care for a child she had no connection to.
But the moment she holds the baby in her arms... something feels painfully familiar.
A scar. A birthmark. A name she once whispered in her nightmares.
The powerful family she now serves hides dangerous secrets-but the deepest one is the man she is slowly falling for.
Because he isn't just the father of the child...
He is the man who once destroyed her life.
And the baby she's protecting?
May be the only proof of a past everyone wants buried.
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