Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 1058:

And he even offered hollow assurances to her—the sheer absurdity of it all scraped against her already raw nerves.

Noah’s brow knitted into a deep furrow as shadows claimed his features.

Her accusation blindsided him completely. “The baby Hailey carries,” he stated with unexpected firmness, “isn’t mine.”

His declaration whipped Sadie’s attention back to him, her face a canvas of naked disbelief. How could that possibly be true?

If it was not his child, then why would Hailey fabricate such a momentous lie?

What purpose could Hailey’s deception possibly serve?

Her stunned expression lanced through Noah’s heart like a physical wound.

skepticism brewing behind her eyes—of course, she wouldn’t believe

stone. “I swear on everything sacred to me, if

sound escaped as a

palm flying to seal

couldn’t bear to hear another

whispered from lips that had already

now,” she whispered, her

it between both of his

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around her shoulders. “Rest now,” he murmured, his voice a soothing balm. “I’ll wait just beyond that door. Call for me at the slightest need.” Recognizing her desperate need for solitude, he retreated from pushing further, respecting the fragile

offered no response, merely sinking back against the pillows and allowing her eyelids to

not Noah’s child growing within Hailey, then whose seed had taken root

Hailey’s own statement, Noah