Chapter 155: Standing Together
Eve hesitated at first. The weight of her past, the memories she had buried for years, threatened to claw their way back to the surface. But she needed someone—needed a friend. And right now, Cammy was the only person she could trust.
Taking a deep breath, she finally spoke.
"Harry and I met in college. We were together for years, in love, inseparable. But when I started working, things changed. I wasn’t rich, and his family hated that. You know... the classic heir-falls-for-the-poor-girl story." Her voice dripped with bitterness. "But ours didn’t have a fairytale ending."
Cammy leaned in, sensing the heaviness in Eve’s words.
"I got pregnant. He never knew... but somehow, his family found out."
Cammy’s eyes widened. She gasped, covering her mouth. "Wait—don’t tell me they paid you to stay away from him?"
Eve let out a bitter chuckle, but there was no humor in it. "Bingo. But that wasn’t all they did."
Her fingers curled around her cup, the old rage and pain bubbling up. "They threatened me, Cammy. They said they would ruin my life, destroy my parents. I was so stressed... that I started bleeding." Her voice wavered for a second before she steeled herself.
"So I did what I had to do. I lied. I told them I lost the baby. I took their money and disappeared from Harry’s life."