Chapter 1277:

“I’m beginning to wonder if you’re hiding behind excuses,” Greta said, quick to strike a nerve. Stirring the pot was second nature to her.

Noel shot her a look, his eyes deep as a well.

“I’m not talking about that kind of issue,” Greta clarified, her tone shifting to something more serious. “I mean your fertility problems. You always say you don’t want me to suffer—but what if that’s just a smokescreen?”

“Top drawer by the window in our bedroom—my medical report’s in there,” Noel replied, parrying her doubts with cold, hard facts.

Greta fell silent. That was… disappointingly dull.

She gave him a final glance, then wandered off to join the kids.

Noel let them go. Watching their happy chaos fade into the distance, he turned back toward his own house.

was deeply immersed in a book—every word

splinter. He paused at the foot of the

“Okay,” Jesse answered simply.

something Greta had said and called

back, his

I ask you something about Aunt Greta?” Jesse wasn’t the sweet-talking


brows lifted with a hint

pause, he stepped over and

or Nina. In his mind, children their age should be like Nick and Nina—bubbling over with

feeling he was talking to someone far older than four—a little soul with a

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