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.

clung to life, hoping he would be outside the operating room. But

I thought of him, I mostly held back-or

voice sounded painfully hoarse. "Did you really not

revealing scars upon

his sleeve back down and

here. I could only hold myself together through these cuts. If I knew we still

my gaze and quickly explaining, "I'm not blaming you, Ariana. I pulled through, and now that both you and our child are here,

chin on my hand, I stared at him across

think I had hidden

that day. Only one person had the chance

day. Had he really

I was confused. My head

situation with Tabitha. For now, I

his teeth."Didn't you hear anything I just