Chapter 254
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Chapter 255
And he and Stella had lost two children too.
What had once been one crisis after another had now become a tangled mess, all crashing together at once.
Everyone had their own pain.
Everyone had their own anger.
On the phone, Dora snarled, “That vicious woman belongs in prison.
“I already called the police. I’m going to make her pay for this. Evan, if you still have any regard for me as your mother, then divorce her.”
Evan said nothing.
His head was pounding.
With Dora’s voice ringing in his ear over and over, demanding that Stella be thrown in prison, the route he had originally been taking to the office gradually turned toward the hospital instead.
But somewhere along the way, something shifted in his mind.
Halfway there, he turned the car around and headed back to the office.
The moment he arrived, Patrick walked up carrying a stack of files.
“Sir, everyone is already waiting in the conference room.”
Evan pulled off his jacket and tossed it onto the couch in his office.
He did not go straight to the meeting room.
Instead, he walked to the floor to ceiling windows, braced his hands on his hips, and stood there in silence.
Patrick stood a short distance behind him, not daring to speak
He could not tell what Evan was thinking.
But based on what he knew, Evan was most likely torn up over Stella.
He knew about the baby’s death too.
For Evan, this really was a nightmare.
On one side was the woman he had insisted on marrying no matter what.
On the other was his late brother’s child, now gone.
Suddenly, Evan spoke.
“If it were you, what would you do?”
The question startled Patrick. “Sir, I…”
How was he supposed to answer that?
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Evan’s tone sharpened. “Say what you think.”
Clearly, with everything crashing down at once, even his own mind had become a mess.
He wanted to hear the opinion of someone standing outside it all.
Patrick hesitated.
He knew too well how important Stella was to Evan.
Over this past stretch of time, she had caused one disaster after another.
And yet Evan had always looked the other way, no matter what the rest of the Wright family said.
But this time was different.
This time, the one who had died was his older brother’s child.
And Evan had cared deeply about both of those children.
It had already weighed on him enough that one of them was frail and sickly.
Now the healthy one was dead.
When Patrick still did not answer, Evan turned back and shot him a cold look.
“Well?”
Patrick finally said, “No matter what, right now, you need to give Madam Summer an explanation.”
Evan fell silent.
An explanation for Summer?
Patrick continued, “I know your wife matters a great deal to you. But Madam Summer has lost her child. If she does not get an explanation, she’ll break.”
He paused, then added quietly, “For a woman, a child is everything.”
Evan said nothing.
But hearing those words only made the tightness in his chest worse.
Yes.
To a woman, a child was the most important thing in the world.
ľ
Even though Stella’s child had never been born, had she not spent all this time acting like she had lost her mind over it?
Patrick lowered his voice further.
“Madam Summer has probably already called the police.”
The police.
The moment Evan heard those words, he thought of Stella back at Mount Lara, calling them without a
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second thought.
She was the one who had caused the child to disappear.
The child had died because of her.
And she had still called the police herself.
What was he even supposed to say about that?
Or had he really spoiled her so much over the past two years that she no longer knew any limits?
Evan closed his eyes.
“The police. Right. The law…”
If she had really done something like this, then of course she should answer for it under the law.
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Sara Lili
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
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