Chapter: 801

She was surely testing Theodore’s patience now.

As silence filled the space, Horace grew uneasy. Years as Theodore’s right-hand man hadn’t prepared him for this. Despite his usually steel-like nerves, he was filled with apprehension.

He knew Theodore’s temperament well, and he was aware that the storm of his wrath was not something one wished to weather.

Theodore tucked away the report after some time, his face betraying nothing, void of any emotion. Yet Horace, attuned to his moods, could sense the storm brewing under Theodore’s icy calm. Swallowing hard, he asked, “What’s the next step?”

“You can leave for now,” Theodore replied curtly before exiting the vehicle.

Watching his retreating figure, Horace let out a deep sigh. “Ariana, you’d better pray.”

As he reached for the door of Ariana’s apartment, his hand wavered in

against the wall, Theodore fumbled for a cigarette. Under the faint glow of the emergency exit,

the cigarette. It was

long drag, he let the smoke fill his lungs before releasing

behaviors. It was all because she was pregnant. And

filled Theodore with

remained undetected. Clearly, someone had been aiding her in this deception, and Ariana had been insistent on having Mitchel as her physician, so

try to hide her pregnancy

Theodore’s thoughts. He stumbled, clutching his

screamed in his mind, “She

for your reaction. The

his distress. He

had been Lingering in the

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