My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 0916

I know I wasn’t the best man, and I made a lot of mistakes Martina and I loved each other at first, but over time, our differences became impossible to ignore. She wasn’t a saint either yes, she’s your mother, but she didn’t exactly keep her vows to love me until death do us part..

When we were 27, she cheated on me with Magnus. When I found out, I didn’t handle it well. At first, I was just angry. We argued a lot. I tried to control myself, but I couldn’t–not when I knew she had fallen in love with him.

I left home for a while. You were too young to remember, but I was gone for some time. That was when I met Aria.

She came into my life unexpectedly, slipping into my mind and, in some ways, my heart. The problem? She was ten years younger than me. And not just that—she was the daughter of an old friend.

Aria and I had an affair behind her father’s back. She was barely seventeen–beautiful in every way. But as the saying goes, what starts wrong, ends wrong. I never told her I was married, and she never told me that her father was a complete son of a bitch.

It didn’t last long. Catherine forced me to go back home, and then Aria’s father found out about us. He couldn’t do much to me, but he could to her. He took her away–at least until he found out she was pregnant. That’s when he came looking for me.

Roman Fairchild took his daughter’s child away from her. He handed him over to me in exchange for a large sum of money. The bastard disappeared after that, never telling me what had happened to Aria.

I knew the boy was mine. I couldn’t abandon him. So, in a completely hypocritical move, I gave him to your mother. I was already taking care of you–now, she would have to take care of my son.

To my surprise, Martina accepted him. She raised him, loved him as much as she loved you. Part of me was always grateful to her for that. The other part… could never rest. Your mother and I were never the same after that. We both carried our own guilt. We both knew what we had done.

For years, I lived with uncertainty. I never forgot Aria. No matter how much I searched, it was like she had disappeared from the face of the earth. At least, that’s how it seemed–until I finally stepped down and left you the company.

At first, I enjoyed my freedom. But soon, it became dull. And in that boredom, I realized I finally had the time to resume the search. Years later, my efforts finally paid off. I had found her.

But then, you had to pull your bullshit. I had to drop everything and come back. I had to pretend nothing was happening. And then… everything fell apart.

Your divorce.

Peter and your ex.

His supposed future child.

Her death.

Catherine’s depression.

Your marriage.

My own depression.

I just couldn’t take it anymore, and

resumed my search for Aria. If nothing else, I wanted to give her the

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Chapter 0916

son had lived until

time. Before I could find her, I had to get rid of

started moving her

paid the price for getting involved with me. When learned what she had been through, I had no choice but to

that, finding her was easier

A little unkempt, but still

But something

Fairchild never forgave her for

him. A

is knowing that bastard suffered even more. His death

would never have laid a hand on that woman.

you know

the same reason you never did with Alexia.

loved

her son. The boy who,

to tell her there was no son

I could do was take her to his

took her there. The place would

And it did.

had never had the chance to hold Peter in her arms. She had never even seen him. Her father had stolen that from her.

now and lives alone. Roman never allowed her to marry. And by the time I got rid of him, she was

then, I was too lost in my own plans to ever consider a life with her again.

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happy to see the boy who is the spitting image of the son she never got

in shock.

never truly accepted that Peter was

been because of guilt? Or had

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died without pe fate the water on his in