Chapter 0554

I wasn't sure if Nicholas had ever studied parenting, but he was doing a great job.

He gently patted Tabitha's back, waiting for her to fall completely asleep in her crib before setting the storybook down. Then, he quietly slipped out of the room.

I followed him downstairs and saw him off at the door, silently urging him to leave quickly.

Standing at the door, Nicholas hesitated, letting out a soft sigh. "Did you get hurt today?"

I looked up at him. "Who are you worried about getting hurt?"

I hadn't kept everything about the incident that happened earlier under wraps. I had asked Douglas to upload part of the footage online.

I'd kept the part where I slapped Claudia and the words I said while hitting her. That slap was repayment, and the second one was interest.

If anyone wanted to search for the truth, they could easily find traces of it. So, was Nicholas going to search for it? Or perhaps, by standing here in front of me and saying these things, he had already done so?

no matter who watched it. How

carried away from my office building, I had someone buy her some medicine,

you. You're the mother

before when we had been too close. He raised his hand before lowering it again, unsure whether to touch

eyes filled with a stinging bitterness as he blinked hard, suppressing

anything, you can come to me. You can do whatever you want. I don't want you

Was he worried I would get caught in the spotlight, or was he more afraid I would push someone

was nothing, she wouldn't be known as the heiress of the

hurt me. Yet, here he was, saying she

he had forgotten about the 20-dollar medicine he had bought for me that

slapped me across the face, he took Claudia to the hospital and left me with

coldly, "Would you go beat Claudia up just for no reason if I

frowned, thinking it over. "She's already limping. Do you want her to be in

knew it. When I needed him, I couldn't rely on him at all. His response didn't disappoint me because I

I had nothing else to say to him. Once, I was the woman who had him in my eyes, the

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