Master Odell’s Secret Ex-Wife

Chapter 833

“Yes, everything there is to know,” Odell spoke with a tint of ice in his voice. 

Sylvia twitched her lips.

Odell refused to avert his intent gaze from her. 

A stark silence descended upon the room. 

“Why didn’t you tell me?” he suddenly asked, breaking the silence. 

Sylvia tried to avoid his gaze and wanted to play it off. “Tell you what?” 

“That he forced you to go to Galston with him, that he was the reason you ended up with depression, and to tell me that the boy is my son!” He became more infuriated as he went on. He was practically shouting toward the end of his sentence. 

Sylvia was not as frightened as she thought she would be. 

Not only was she not afraid of his outburst, but she even found herself laughing uncontrollably like a mad woman. She mocked him, “You’re already engaged. What’s the point of telling you all this to begin with?” 

She originally intended to tell him.

On the plane back to Westchester City from Galston, she had already composed everything in her head. 

tell him everything that happened to her in Galston during the last six torturous months. She wanted to tell him that despite all odds, she managed to keep their child alive.

that he was engaged as soon as she got off the

their engagement, she swallowed everything she wanted to say including the things she had composed inside her mind on the way back home.

it, we’re simply not meant to be.” Sylvia looked at him again. She seemed on the verge of tears but was smiling. “Thank you for coming here last night. I’ve

keep the boy by my side. If it pleases you, I’ll tell him that you’re his father, but if you think that it would sour things between you and Lily, I will never tell him. You don’t have to tell Lily either. She doesn’t need to know that

and the exhaustion was showing in her voice.

Odell could still

inside his

bed. He bent over and held her frail face in his large palms, bringing his face closer to

want both you and the boy,” he declared this with utter certainty. He had never

felt something lurch

from him and murmured,”I’m not going to be your

Odell was quiet. 

murmured,”Lily and I are only

to him with mild surprise.

“Huh?” 

“We only got engaged to appease Master Springsteen. There was this misunderstanding some time ago that stirred up rumors that I was seeing her. Master Springsteen was so furious by those rumors that he ended

quite an ordeal. In the end, she came to me and struck a deal to get engaged because she was worried about Master Springsteen’s condition.”

situation. “That means it’s not a real engagement after

it’s more like a private

“Really?”