The Divorce Prescription

Celine froze. She looked up at Adam. "What did you say? Whose child did you say this was?"

Adam sneered. "Do I really need to tell you whose child it is? You should know better than anyone! The child is Perry's!"

Celine's slender frame trembled. She didn't want Adam to know about the child's existence, but now that he did, she couldn't let him misunderstand the child's parentage.

"Adam, listen to me carefully. This child is not Perry's. It's yours!"

Celine said the child was his.

Adam was momentarily stunned before he slowly chuckled.

"Adam, what are you laughing at? I'm not joking. This child is really yours. I—"

"Enough, Celine!" He cut her off, reaching out to pinch her delicate chin. "Celine, you're carrying Perry's child and still have the audacity to tell me it's mine? What do you take me for? Some gullible fool? Or are you just pitying me?"

"I..."

"Celine, listen up. I don't give a damn about the child in your belly. I don't care whose it is!"

Celine's heart turned cold in an instant. The words she had been about to say got stuck in her throat. After what he just said, what was the point of explaining further? He didn't care about this child at all.

She raised her hand and pressed it against his chest. "If that's the case, then let go of me, Mr. Alvarez. You can leave now."

her cold and distant expression, and suddenly, he couldn't take it. In fact, back at the cemetery, he already

really

thousand times, ten thousand times, Perry will always be more important to me

admitted that Perry

the inside of his cheek,

to you, then considering that he's in my hands right now, shouldn't you

"What do you mean?"

smirked. "Maybe you could beg me to let

will you

at the

"Fine. I beg

"Celine, I've never seen anyone beg like this

I

how a woman should

to be pretty

contracted slightly. She raised her hand and

dreaming. I will

He reached out and

patted her

the pure and virtuous woman? Weren't you the one demanding condoms when you slept

argue with him