Tantria Lin had been the beating heart of this home, a gentle yet formidable woman who had devoted her entire life to Anthony's side. Though she had married Anthony at a remarkably young age—bridging a significant age gap between them—her youth had never hindered her from becoming an extraordinary, fiercely loving mother to Jayden.
When death cruelly ripped Tantria away, it was as though the ground beneath Jayden had caved in completely. He had lost his primary anchor, his sole source of unconditional warmth. Looking back now, the tragic logic of his past mistakes seemed heartbreakingly clear: drifting through a world devoid of his mother's comfort, it had been all too easy for a young, wounded Jayden to seek a surrogate maternal figure in older, calculating women like Veronica, desperate to fill the cavernous void left in his chest.
