My Coldhearted Ex demands a Remarriage by Eva Blackwood

Chapter 945:

“You figured it out!” Aliza approached and linked her arm through his, playfully coaxing him with her touch. “I came out and couldn’t spot you, but I bumped into Miss Hinks, and we got caught up in conversation.”

Kristopher’s mind drifted elsewhere, managing only a distracted murmur in response. The identity of Aliza’s female acquaintance held little interest for him.

Meanwhile, Alethea, having returned to the banquet hall herself, searched in vain for her adoptive parents.

Across the venue, in an upscale lounge tucked behind the banquet hall, Kelsey and Jacob entered with a suited man.

into his seat, Kelsey leaned forward anxiously. “Dr.

origin story was complicated—her mother had fallen deeply for a man of modest means. To thwart this unsuitable romance, the Hinks family had drugged her mother along with their preferred suitor, resulting in an unplanned pregnancy. Thus, Kelsey had entered the

assumed her mother would terminate the pregnancy, monitoring her closely. To their astonishment, her mother calmly accepted her condition and expressed her intention to carry the child

keeping the child might effectively sever her

mother had been meticulous about Kelsey’s care, pouring herself into her daughter’s education and upbringing. Yet,

up lonely, her mother even adopted an orphan—now her husband, Jacob—who became her most

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evening, her mother, abandoning her customary detachment, entered Kelsey’s bedroom before sleep and stretched out beside her on

spoke quietly. “You arrived in this world unexpectedly. I never contemplated ending the pregnancy because you bear no fault. The wrong lies with these excessively practical, unfeeling adults. I’ve strived to fulfill my maternal duties and educate you properly, but my presence in your life