Chapter 210 The Perfect Standby

"It's all my fault," Mason admitted with self-reproach. "If I hadn't acted on impulse and cut everyone off after leaving Newark, your dad wouldn't have faced those problems." "It's not on you," Sadie Roth took a deep breath. "Maybe it's just fate."

"You never used to talk like that," Mason looked at her with empathy. "These years must have been hard for you, right?"

"It's not about hardship; it's just..." Sadie Roth fought the urge to pour her heart out and changed the subject. "Mason, did you come back to visit Arianna and your dad?" "I came for you," Mason's gaze was intense. "I heard about your troubles and wanted to see if there was anything I could do for you."

"You shouldn't be so good to me..." Sadie's voice broke as she began to sob. "The better you are to me, the more guilty I feel."

She glanced at his hand on the steering wheel, the left adorned with a black glove to cover the missing ring finger...

That finger, meant for a wedding band, was lost because of her.

"Don't be silly!" Mason, seeing her about to cry, immediately pulled her into an embrace. "I take joy in being kind to you. Let me be happy, okay?"

pout and a sniffle, Sadie

nature, she was the epitome of optimism and cheer. She faced challenges head-on, always finding a way through the tough spots

moments

now, in the sanctuary of

fear with me here," Mason whispered, kissing her

upon a time and now having three kids by him, or that she was being

how Micah Clemens forced her into a debt settlement that not even Mason's hundred million could clear,

she couldn't allow her troubles to drag him down

make an enemy of

to keep him

up, broaching the subject. "I know it's not true. With your character, after Ronan Potter bailed at the clutch four years

now that I'm back, no one can hurt

his protective

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