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.

in her

If that’s the case, Evander must have been planning this charade and

she opted instead to investigate the matter thoroughly at

to play when the bell in the kindergarten rang a long time ago, but

the teachers called for every child to

Evander to appear together in the parent-teacher conference, Floretta honored the occasion by applying herself

boys who

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

gesture, her face

Mark? Give my drawing back

away and perused the sketchbook

fancy artwork in here. Instead, all you have is a drawing of your family! Aunt Olivine

“You’re lying!”

her feet angrily. Her features

insists on being my mother and must have said those things in a fit of embarrassed anger because

Sherrock. That’s my Aunt Olivine,” Mark growled as he pushed her 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 the orphanage when she

She was so frightened at the mention of the orphanage that her

“No, Daddy will never do that,” she exclaimed indignantly while rubbing

‘The Journey’? Look at how good at lying Floretta is! She’s practically in

with his friends, began to point and

are you laughing about? My

convince them, but despite her earnestness, none of them believed

they laughed all the harder at those

is a movie star!

binge-watching ‘The Journey,’ and she