Her Precious Baby

He expected Angeline to blame and scold him instead of opening up like this. It was as if she had numbed herself to her fate.

The only thing more dangerous than a fight in a relationship was a cold shoulder, which was proof of her increasing disregard for him.

Evander felt empty in the stomach at that thought. He reached out and grabbed Angeline’s arm.

“Why did we have to break up?” he asked, gritting his teeth in dismay.

“Was I not clear enough?”

“I want the real reason.” Evander gazed down at her, his voice husky. “Why did you react that way when you saw the Heart of the Ocean I gifted you? What are you hiding from me?”

He only realized the shift in Angeline’s emotional state after he calmed down. Though he was unclear of the reason, he surmised upon further thought that it must have been due to the necklace.

“Is that important?”

Angeline’s heart skipped a beat at Evander’s words. She turned around to face him while feigning a calm she did not feel.

“Everybody has their secrets, Mr. Golding. That must be why you won’t tell me who Floretta’s real mother is.”

Initially prodding Evander to see if she could discover something, she did not expect such a hostile reaction from him.

“You are becoming bold, Angeline!”

“Forget I ever asked.”

Angeline scoffed and again struggled to free herself of Evander before turning around to leave abruptly.

the doubt in her

baby? If that’s the case, Evander must have been planning this charade and knew that I would only hate him all the more for knowing the truth from all

ruminate further, she opted instead to investigate the

the bell in the kindergarten rang a long time ago, but Floretta remained in her seat with a colored pen in her hand, busy filling in the

looming close, the teachers called for every child to produce an artwork to

was rare for Angeline and Evander to appear together in the parent-teacher conference, Floretta honored the occasion by

to admit a group of boys who came barging in. They gazed in Floretta’s

boys, chubbier than the rest, arrived before Floretta with his chest puffed up and

his gesture, her face flushed red with

Mark?

hands shoved Floretta away and perused the

Instead, all you have is a drawing of your family! Aunt Olivine said that

“You’re lying!”

angrily. Her

on being my mother and must have said those

again and jabbed a menacing finger. “Your mother threw you away as soon as you were born. Besides, Aunt Olivine said she’ll put you in

fell onto the ground. She was so frightened at the mention

indignantly while rubbing her eyes.

Look at how good at lying Floretta is! She’s practically

along with his friends, began to point and laugh at

you laughing about? My

tried to convince them, but despite her earnestness, none of

all the harder

Sorelle is a movie star! How could

My mother has been binge-watching ‘The Journey,’ and she loves Angeline in it. She’s