Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0630

As soon as the words fell, the room was enveloped in a deathly silence.

"W-What did you just say?"

Nicholas gripped my shoulders and spun me around. I felt as if my body was about to fall apart.

His voice was hoarse as he let out a painful growl. "Say it again! How could this happen? I drank those tonics too!"

The expression on his face mirrored mine from back then.

When I first learned the truth, I was just as shocked, stunned to the point of disbelief. I even began to question the world itself. Why was everything a lie?

As I watched Nicholas's face shift from shock to confusion, my face turned pale. My breathing grew shallow as if I might disappear at any moment.

Would he believe me? Would he trust the woman who had once filled his childhood with warmth, or would he believe me instead?

"Say something!" After a brief daze, Nicholas seemed to grasp at a lifeline, shaking my shoulders desperately.

"What do you want

How could you have given birth to

trembled a few times

tell him. Yet, he refused to believe me after I

him and let out a soft, self-deprecating laugh. Closing my eyes, a single tear slid

cry." A warm, damp kiss landed on my eyelid. His lips softly lingered,

was filled with a sense

you were

slowly opened my eyes, the tears fighting

you be so foolish? If you're not healthy, why would you have Tabitha? Why risk

to tremble violently, his

it? Who told you to give birth to Tabitha? Claudia is now

well because of me, and I've turned a blind eye to everything. But I'm

when he pulled away, his determination was clear. He stood up and headed for

"Nicholas!"

him, holding him around the waist from behind. "Please, calm

telling him the