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.

my words, "What do you want me

were unwell! How could you have given birth to

few times

Yet,

self-deprecating laugh. Closing my eyes, a single tear slid down my

landed on my eyelid. His lips softly lingered, absorbing my tears. "I can't

voice was filled with a sense of

had such a difficult labor. No wonder you said you were on the brink of death! You endured so much,

eyes, the tears fighting to spill

could you be so foolish? If you're not healthy, why would you have Tabitha? Why risk your life? Why didn't you

began to tremble

to

eye to everything.

clear. He stood up and headed

"Nicholas!"

after him, holding him around the waist from

telling him the truth. If he couldn't accept this, how

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