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 I left.

my search for Aria.

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Chapter 0916

her son had lived until

could find her, I

her, he started moving her from place to place, keeping her

learned what she had been through,

was easier than I expected.

was still beautiful. A little unkempt,

she saw me, I knew she recognized me. But something about her

Fairchild never forgave her

him.

that gives me peace is knowing that bastard suffered even more. His death

no, Maximus–I would never have laid a hand on that

know exactly

same reason you never did with Alexia.

loved her.

saw me, she thought I was bringing her to meet her son. The boy who, by her calculations,

ready to tell her there was

was take

simply took her there. The place would explain everything for me.

And it did.

She had never had the chance to hold Peter in her arms. She had never even

her to marry. And by the time I got rid of him,

then, I was too lost in my own plans to ever consider a life

decide to look for her, maybe you should introduce her to Aldo and Ethan: From what I’ve heard,

who is the spitting image of the son she

was in

never truly accepted that

had he genuinely

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died without pe fate the water on