Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0539

I stayed silent, feeling dizzy the moment Nicholas held my hand. The words I didn't want to hear, the topics I tried to avoid, slipped so easily from his lips.

"Ariana, I truly didn't know you were carrying our child. I thought the baby was gone back in the hospital...

His Adam's apple moved as he struggled to speak, his tone thick with emotion.

"Otherwise, even if I relapsed and felt like dying, I would have come and died right there at your and Tabitha's feet.

His hold was almost painful, cutting off the circulation in my hand. I knew the moment he let go, my entire arm would tingle with numbness.

Nicholas asked in a restrained tone, "Ariana, did you ever think of me over these years?"

It felt as if my body were being torn apart, the pain overwhelming and unbearable.

Yes, I had desperately thought of him on the delivery bed. When Tabitha and I were both on the brink, I wished with all my strength to see him just once more. The fear that I wouldn't make it overwhelmed me-I needed to see him one last time.

would be outside the operating room. But when the doors finally

of him, I mostly held back-or felt more hatred than

voice sounded painfully hoarse. "Did you really not

and rolled up his sleeve, revealing scars upon scars. "If I had known, there wouldn't be so many

pulled his sleeve back

wouldn't even be here. I could only hold myself together through these cuts. If I knew

cut himself off abruptly, catching my gaze and quickly explaining, "I'm not blaming you, Ariana. I pulled through, and now that both you and our child

stared at him across the short distance and tried to see

blaming me? Did he think I had hidden it from him? If he was telling the truth, then who had come

day. Only one person

side every day. Had he

confused. My

situation with Tabitha. For now, I

tightened his hold, gritting his teeth."Didn't