His Knees, His Pleas, But Our Son's in Peace

Chapter 15

I nodded. "Yes. I'm done with this marriage. I want what's rightfully mine. You can keep your apologies, Nathan. They don't matter anymore."

For a moment, he froze, as if trying to comprehend the sudden shift in me. Then, slowly, he nodded, his voice broken. "Okay... I promise. I'll give it back."

I knew Nathan held a grudge against both me and my mother. He had always believed that my mother had only kept him around because of his talent, using him to save our family's struggling company. He would laugh bitterly sometimes, calling himself the dog my mother had raised to do her bidding. She held the leash, and he resented her

for it.

been too wrapped up in his new lover to care about our family. He didn't want anything to do with me, and he had outright refused to raise Nathan, abandoning

believed it was my mother and I who tore him and

Pleas, But

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the brink of bankruptcy under our management had turned into something extraordinary under his control. Each day it

capable, and effortlessly

a gentleman, a visionary. That's why my mother had no hesitation

his real parents-the Johnsons, a wealthy and powerful family. They welcomed him back with open arms, and he inherited their vast fortune. The moment he became a Johnson, he folded my family's company into the Johnson Group, as if it were the natural course