Chapter 623:

Out in the parking lot, Freya slid into her car with Kristian taking the passenger seat beside her.

She didn’t start the engine. Instead, she turned to him and asked calmly, “What brings you here?”

“It’s been a month.”

“What?”

“It’s been almost a month since Grandpa’s birthday,” Kristian said, his eyes softer than usual. “You should be on your period by now, but you’re not. So… you should pretend to be pregnant.” His words jerked Freya’s mind back to the present.

The man who had told Ashley to keep an eye on Freya’s signs of pregnancy clearly had an agenda behind it.

Freya’s brows pinched slightly before she replied, “I’ll tell Ashley.”

“Freya,” Kristian’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed down a tangle of unspoken words.

on him, dreading that

she lashed out, he’d rather that than this

confusion behind them hit her with a jolt, stopping her

pushed past the sensation and asked lightly, “What is it that you

voice was rough, his hair tousled and casting shadows across his eyes, making him

finally admitted what he had never wanted to face—that he regretted everything. Regretted the choices

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her gaze drifting unfocused for

had said those words

she’d wanted was to prove him wrong—to force him to see his mistake

now, watching him crumble beneath the weight of his apology, she didn’t feel

calm.

had been so utterly lost in matters of the heart. He was meant

Kristian murmured again,

have shattered her. She might’ve wrapped her arms around him, told him she’d

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