Hogan’s face grew dark. If that was true…

“Will, I need you to look into something for me.”

He went to Will’s office and shared everything he’d discovered over the past few days. “I need you to find out whether my car accident was really just an accident, or if it was deliberate. If it was deliberate, see if Liliana was behind it. And don’t tell Finnian about this yet.”

“Understood.”

Will nodded, still reeling from shock.

So Mr. Hogan Everly’s car accident might be connected to Ms. Porter? Ms. Porter really is frightening…

“By the way, has anything major happened at the company these past few days?” Hogan asked.

He’d been tied up with business and his investigation lately, with no time to follow what was going on at the Everly Group, so he asked casually.

Will thought for a moment. “Nothing much at the company, but something did happen with Ms. Sullivan. I’m not sure if you’ve seen the news.”

Hogan had been so busy lately he hadn’t even looked at the news. He quickly asked, “What happened with her?”

Will pulled out his phone and let Hogan read the news himself, offering an explanation as he did.

Hogan was stunned. Amara was pregnant, and no one even knew who the father was? Amara was always such a conservative person-how could something like this happen…

That afternoon, Amara received another call from Keith, asking to meet and saying he had something he wanted to talk about.

Amara had also been wanting to speak with him, so she got dressed and left the Everly estate, heading to the place Keith had suggested.

This time, instead of a coffee shop, they met at a small park—a place they used to play together as children.

Back then, the park had been lively, filled with families and children. Now, it had grown quiet and almost deserted, its melancholy atmosphere a far cry from the past. When Amara arrived, Keith greeted her with a small smile and said, “I haven’t been in touch with you much these days. How have you been at the Everly estate?”

Amara nodded and glanced at the shadows under his eyes. “You look exhausted.”

“Yeah, I’m running around for a reality show, filming a series, handling business stuff it’s been nonstop…”

Keith vented for a moment, but he hadn’t called her out just to complain.

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get married, but I kept insisting After talking for a while. I realized they’re not impossible to reason with. These past couple of days, they’ve started to come around.”

He looked at her as he spoke.

“Amara, let’s pick a date and get married. Even if they’re against it at first, as long as

we stick together, they’ll come around eventually.”

Amara was silent for a moment, then said, “We don’t need to get married anymore. Larry said don’ have to wait until I’m married to get my inheritance. His conditionis that I terminate the pregnancy

Keith was stunned, unable to process what she’d just said.

After a moment, he blurted out, “How could that be? So he’s not insisting you get married anymore…”

As soon as he said it, he stiffened.

It was a completely inappropriate thing to say. He watched Amara anxiously, hoping she wouldn’t notice his slip but she looked at him calmly, her expression almost unnaturally composed.

Her calmness unsettled Keith, and he stood frozen for a moment.

Then he took two steps forward and asked, “You figured it out, didn’t you?”

Amara understood what he meant. She turned to look at a tree nearby and said, “Yes, I did.”