Chapter 4

Briony drew a deep breath, doing her best to keep her composure.

She turned to Rosita. "Ms. Lockwood, are you really Irwin's biological mother?"-

Rosita met Briony's gaze, her smile gentle and warm. "Five years ago, because of work and a company contract, I had no choice but to keep my relationship with Irwin a secret."

Briony's breath caught. "Irwin's father..."

"Irwin is Stewart's and my child," Rosita replied softly.

Her words, gentle as they sounded, plunged into Briony's heart like a dagger.

Briony froze, a suffocating pain tightening her chest and draining all color from her face.

So, all this time-the child she had raised and loved as her own for five years— was actually Stewart and Rosita's son.

Which meant Stewart had been deceiving her from the very beginning.

He hadn't cheated after their wedding; rather, he'd been playing her for a fool right from the start.

sorry for keeping this from you for so long. I actually advised Stewart to be honest with you from the beginning, but he thought it would be best if

in Briony's mind like a relentless

she was

side by side- even if there was no romantic love between them-they at

no idea that, all along, the man she shared her life with had only ever kept her at arm's

lie to her? If he'd only told her the truth from the start, she never would have let herself fall

Stewart and I are both

Rosita added, "You've raised Irwin so well. As his biological mother, I truly

face eerily calm, though her

not true! You're lying! I only have one mother-and I want my real mom!" Irwin shouted at Rosita, his small face twisted in anger. "You're a bad woman! You have no right to call yourself my

tears welled up in her eyes. The hurt and restraint in

stood and snapped at Briony, "Is this how you

no energy to argue with Fiona. Still, for Irwin's sake, she managed,

you're up to?" Fiona sneered. "Briony, we're both women.

"Galen!"

butler hurried

the boy. I won't have the Wentworth family's blood

but at Fiona's glare, he stepped forward and

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