Taming The CEO The Escaping Wife

Chapter 129

“Letitia, you’ve gotta have a thing for the kid’s dad, right?” he said, “That’s why you’re making such a big deal out of this! You wanna have babies for him, stay in touch, and you’re itching for the day you two can shack up together, aren’t you?”

“Yes!”

“Say it again!”

“Yes, yes!” Letitia went all in. Screw it, she thought. If he’s not gonna believe the truth, might as well play his game and tick him off!

“The kid’s dad said he’d marry me, and I’m waiting for him!” Letitia blurted out. “He’s sweet to me, cares about me, he promised me a future! Compared to you, he’s a thousand, no, a million times better!”

Elgin’s temples bulged with veins, “You’re just trying to tick me off, Letitia!”

She scoffed and curled her lip. “Can’t handle a bit of talk, huh

And what about her? She lost her child.

Letitia’s hands trembled non-stop as she slowly covered her now flat belly.

it was fiat as before, but she knew the child was there, alive and well with her.

But now…the baby was gone, nothing left

The child was her reason to keep on living, and Elgin snuffed it out with his own hands

Now, the only thing Letitia had left to care about was her aging parents

But her parents will get old and one day they’ll leave her too.

Then she’ll be all alone, no strings attached, no one to hold anything over her.

Elgin stood by the bedside, looking down at her. “Letitia, you sure you wanna go head-to-head with me?”

She ignored him, her palms gently stroking her belly, pretending the child was still there.

“You have two choices, Elgin said. “You better play smart and pick the easy path.”

“What choices?”

real husband and wife. Or two, hate me,

road to take when the choices are

wealth and honor, all the perks that came with being

it

forget everything, and live meekly and without dignity at Elgin’s side

kind of woman to live off

the second option?” Letitia looked him in the eye. “I won’t walk the easy path you’ve laid out for me,

the hand that feeds you!”

her head held high. “I’ve given ground over and over, only asking to give birth to the child, just wanting him to live, even if I never see him… but you just had to crush all

this way,

we! There’s no ‘we’!’ Letitia cut him off. “Elgin, I am me, and you are you, not us!”

was a

had never been rejected like this! His hands by his side clenched and unclenched.

hospital bed, the blanket sliding off to reveal her patient gown,

wanted this, Letitia said. “Elgin, it’s always about you, your feelings, making everyone

to you. We are enemies, sworn enemies for

of losing her child, the heartache of her

entangled Letitia pushing her to a complete breakdown, to

throwing anything she could get

was swept to the

shattered into pieces.

they kicked the door open and rushed in, “Mr. Ramirez!” Letta, feeth clenched and eyes red, braced herself on

an IV drip, but her movements had been so violent that the needle had

and knocked over the

bodyguards were stunned. “Mrs. Ramirez…”

he silently watched her

really hate you, hate you!” Letitia said “Elgin, you’re so cruel to me yet you expect me to forget everything and stay by your side… Impossible, you think I’m like

watched her quietly. “Are

“Not even close”

keep going

so calm? Because you’ve got no heart, you don’t feel pain!”

no heart, Elgin agreed, then sharply ordered the bodyguards, “Get

“Mr. Ramirez