Chapter 187: Threats
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"Fine," Cyrus agreed.
After the most annoying lunch in his life, Cyrus left the restaurant. While Cedric left later than Cyrus. He took his sweet time and felt happy to tell Eleanor about her unknown secrets. Maybe if he reveals her secrets then she may forgive him.
Cedric doesn’t know that Eleanor wasn’t angry at him but disappointed at him and herself. But as days passed her memory about that unfortunate thing is fading. Only if he was known maybe things would have been different. But what he can do in the play of fate. He could nothing other than get played with it.
Next day...
Cedric agreed that Cyrus was as efficient as Esther. They both were too efficient with their work. If they say they would do it, they would do it. He learned to be efficient from them. He admired them for being able to understand each other. Cyrus never forced Esther to merge both companies such that he could handle them both and let Esther rest. He respected her decision to work. And even Esther despite being a mother to a child made sure that she has enough time for her child. Reggie... loved his parents equally. He was just in his first grade, but he was too smart of his age.
Cedric started daydreaming about his married life and his life as a father. Well, before he could slip into his daydreaming deeper, he came out.
From Cyrus’ investigation, he got to know that Eleanor was never a Zora. She was born after their marriage. And her biological mother doubted Eleanor’s birth from the start but she brushed it off thinking that she might be overthinking. But as Eleanor grew, it became obvious of the fact that Eleanor wasn’t Aiden’s daughter.
Feeling guilty, she committed that she was involved in a one-night stand with a stranger when she was drunk. But as she was drunk she forgot who he was. She never knew she was pregnant with the stranger’s identity until she gave birth to Eleanor. In the start, she used to think she was thinking unnecessarily but she realized that Eleanor wasn’t Aiden’s. She proposed to Aiden that she would take away Eleanor with her and rise her.
But Aiden disagreed with the divorce and on giving up Eleanor. Left with no choice, Eleanor’s mother committed suicide and filed a divorce. In the court, Aiden asked for Eleanor’s custody proving that Eleanor’s mother was not in the right state of mind to take care of a child. Even the court agreed that Eleanor’s mother wasn’t suitable to take care of the child as she committed suicide.