Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

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?

video, I came across as the dominant one, no matter

carried away from my office building, I had someone buy her some medicine, the kind that costs

about you. You're the mother of my child, the woman I care

outburst the night before when we had been too close. He

stinging bitterness as he

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

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

much scrutiny. If Claudia really was nothing, she wouldn't be known as the heiress of the Hawk family. She wouldn't have the power to rally the

her the ability to hurt me. Yet, here he was, saying she

20-dollar medicine he had bought for me

to the hospital and left me with nothing but that medicine. He didn't even

beat Claudia up just

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

him, I couldn't rely on him at all. His response didn't disappoint me because I had never expected

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