Chapter 115

Neil’s entrance into her life was like this bouquet of flowers.

He was her ray of light, a savior in her darkest times.

In the evening, Letitia dragged her exhausted body back to Ivory Towers and after freshening up, as per usual, she popped on her headphones.

Shela’s voice came through.

She listened while doodling design drafts with a pencil on paper.

Until Mark’s voice emerged from the headphones, Letitia’s hand with the pencil froze in an instant.

She focused, afraid of missing a single word

The conversation wasn’t long, just half an hour. And it laid bare the whole thing it was a setup, a scheme orchestrated by her and her father Letitia was innocent from start to finish; they had conspired against her!

But more importantly, Letitia latched onto the two key sentences

“Take it step by step. Anyway, she doesn’t know who the father of that child really is.”

“Dad, tell me, if I, a normal person, can barely handle it, hurting for days, then how on earth could a pregnant woman just be okay?”

Yes, Letitia truly didn’t know who the father of the child was, only Mark and Shela knew for sure. But that second sentence, it threw Letitia for a loop

Why did Shela say she was a normal person?

And why mention that after tumbling down the stairs, she was just in pain for a few days, while Letitia, a pregnant woman, seemed

unscathed?

Something was off.

Letitia held her breath, her brain whirring at top speed.

Shela wasn’t a normal person, she was pregnant

Letitia was a pregnant woman, no doubt, and so was Shela

Mark’s main concern was entirely about Shela herself, not a word about the lost child…

pregnant woman… Suddenly, it clicked

No pregnancy meant no miscarriage! That’s why Shela complained to Mark about the pain and bruises from the fall

thought about the child or future

even having a small confinement. Without proper care, it might become tough to get pregnant

didn’t give a damn!

it…” Letitia stood up, pumped, “No pregnancy, no miscarriage, it’s all Shela’s ploy, her way to snag Elgin’s heart

off her headphones and

chance to bring Shela down had finally

pregnancy and a subsequent miscarriage; this was no trivial matter. It was beyond belief that Elgin would still keep

hates nothing more than

right

the

heel, heading out, when she bumped straight into

“In such a hurry to fall into someone’s

up at him, her eyes sparkling, “You’re back! I

Talk about timing

his office! She

Chapter 115

he looked into her bright eyes, Elgin’s

in front of him

she this eager to see him? Elgin couldn’t help but cheer up, not even realizing

voice softened, “You’ve been looking for me?”

Were you burning

“Yeah, meetings.”

at the hem of his clothes, “I’ve got something to

like this, Elgin was defenseless.

It’s

just can’t resist the whole sweet and

good thing

but even after a momentary daze, he slowly came back to his senses Looking down, he saw her hand on his clothing

smoothing out his clothes on

Shela’s deeds in front of Elgin filled her with an

towards the living room, “You

elated, no hiding it.

she start, “I stumbled upon a secret. Or rather, I found

Innocence”

fool and quickly surmised,

drag her down the stairs, had no intention of hurting her. It was all her own doing!

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