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…

clicked for Letitia,

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

She never even thought about the child or

a number on a woman’s body. Usually, women need to recover, even

give a damn!

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

off her headphones and bolted out.

chance to bring Shela

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

he hates nothing more than deceit and betrayal!

hit him right where

grip tightened, and she rushed towards the villa. Turned out, Elgin

heel, heading out, when she bumped

magnetic male voice floated down, “In such a

eyes sparkling, “You’re

Talk about timing

about to drive to his office! She couldn’t wait another second

Chapter 115

looked into her bright eyes, Elgin’s heart

had that look in front of him Expectant,

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

“You’ve been

Were you burning the

“Yeah, meetings.”

his clothes, “I’ve got

like this, Elgin was

It’s

deep down, men just can’t resist the whole sweet and cuddly

much of a good thing can be intoxicating.

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

smoothing out his clothes

front of Elgin filled her with an

the living room,

elated, no hiding it.

couch did she start, “I stumbled

Innocence”

was no fool and quickly surmised, “It’s about Shela?”

stairs, had no intention of hurting her. It was all

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