Angela Oriakhi

the butterfly silent debt

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She was born from a forbidden love — a Black father and a Chinese mother who gave up everything to be together. Orphaned at ten, raised by kind strangers who became family, Li-Mei learned early that home is not built from blood but from the people who choose to stay.At eighteen, one rainy night and one wrong address shattered everything she had rebuilt. She escaped that dark hotel room with nothing but silence, secrets, and a life growing inside her that she never planned for.Ten years later, Li-Mei is strong, successful, and raising her daughter with the quiet devotion of the one man who never left her side — Wei Chen, her childhood friend, her safe place, the father her daughter knows and loves.Then fate forces her into the office of Leo — cold, powerful, and haunted by a night he cannot forget. A night she has spent ten years trying to erase.He is looking for the woman he lost. He does not know he is already looking at her.And when the truth finally surfaces — marked forever on her skin in the shape of a butterfly — everything will break before anything can heal.Because some debts cannot be paid with money. Some silences cannot be kept forever. And some families are not born — they are chosen.

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