{"id":30917,"date":"2025-10-30T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30917"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:03:46","slug":"30917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30917","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1428\">Her eyes glazed\u2014not confused, but scared.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1477\">\u201cShe told me\u2026 she told me not to come back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1521\">My chest tightened, breath caught. <em data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1521\">What?<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1580\">I lifted her into my arms and pushed open the front door.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1582\" data-end=\"1829\">The warmth inside hit me like a slap. The fireplace was lit, Christmas music played softly, and candles flickered across the living room. And there, on the couch, sat Lydia\u2014laughing\u2014beside a man I had never seen before. Their wine glasses clinked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1831\" data-end=\"1894\">The moment she saw me, the smile vanished. Her face went white.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1896\" data-end=\"1919\">\u201cMichael? You\u2019re\u2014back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1896\" data-end=\"1919\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30919\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her eyes glazed\u2014not confused, but scared. \u201cShe told me\u2026 she told me not to come back in.\u201d My chest tightened, breath caught. What? I lifted her into my arms and pushed open the front door. The warmth inside hit me like a slap. The fireplace was lit, Christmas music played softly, and candles flickered across&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30917\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30927,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30917\/revisions\/30927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}