A Journey from Bitterness to Truth

Chapter 46

“Obsessed, you say?” Yvan shot back at her with an incredulous look. “Seems to me you’re the one knocking on my door. How does that turn into me being obsessed? Matilda, you really shouldn’t have barged into my life. But here you are, dragging our son into this mess, forcing me to question what you’re really after…”

“Yvan, are you even human?” Matilda’s voice broke through the air, raw with emotion. “Logan is my son, your son too! Any decent person wouldn’t doubt their own flesh and blood! How can you be so cruel? Don’t you care if Logan gets hurt?”

Yvan stiffened, his gaze drifting to the little boy in Matilda’s arms.

As Logan looked up, his eyes brimming with disappointment, he asked softly, “Mr. Boyd, do you really think Mommy is using me to get your attention?”

Speechless, Yvan could only stare at him with those deep, penetrating eyes. It took a moment before he could muster a reply. “Logan, there are things between adults you just wouldn’t understand.”

“Yeah, I guess I don’t.” Logan, steadying his trembling mother, stepped forward to meet Yvan’s gaze. “What do you see my mom as, Mr. Boyd? If she wanted attention, she could’ve used me as leverage against you five years ago when I was born. But instead, she hid me away from you. Can’t you see what that means?”

See what? That deep down Matilda loathed him so much she’d rather be worlds apart?

to face that truth, twisting her intentions to

whispered, “It’s okay,

yet she insisted she

was all thanks

contracted imperceptibly, his mask of inscrutability barely

never have fallen for such a cold–blooded

paid far too dear. Once bitten, twice shy, and when it came to Yvan, Matilda treated

calm, dismissive smile, she pushed Logan

to find her eyes blazing with a fury that seemed to peak; her tone,

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away. He had always given her his back, and