Under the Veil I Rule

Chapter 357

She already knew the answer before she even asked, but she couldn't let it go- she had to hear it out loud. And now, after asking, her heart ached unbearably. The way Finnian had rejected her, not a moment's hesitation, flashed through her mind; her eyes were rimmed red. What was she supposed to do now?

After leaving the hospital, Finnian rubbed his temples, feeling that familiar wave of exhaustion crash over him.

Liliana had lost the baby. He couldn't quite put his emotions into words.

At first, he hadn't wanted the child. But Liliana did, and she played the "you owe me" card, reminding him of how she'd once saved his life. So he agreed to keep the baby.

Once that decision was made, the reality of impending fatherhood crept in, and with it, a sliver of attachment-if he was honest with himself, he'd started to care, or at least to take the idea of the child seriously.

Now, finding out so suddenly that the baby was gone, he felt strangely hollow inside. At the same time, though, there was a faint sense of relief.

That relief made him feel guilty-guilty for the child who would never be born.

If that child could know that his own father hadn't wanted him to come into this world, wouldn't he be heartbroken?

this line of thinking was

of cells, not even remotely human,

even knowing all this, he couldn't help but dwell on

just finished dinner when her phone rang. It was Finnian. "Amara, are you

am," she replied. "Is something wrong, Mr.

downstairs. Could you come with

instinctively, "I'm sorry, it's not a good time for

I want to go

you come with me?" he interrupted. He was always so composed, but right now his

in it if she

closely. s

in that instant, and she didn't answer right away. Before

that, he hung

him to be so insistent; she stood there

opened it, Finnian was standing there his gaze fixed on her