Chapter 104: Zeran’s Burden
The woman named Lindsey stared at Zeran with vacant eyes, her breath ragged, lips trembling.
"You pushed me away for years, but now that cheap country bitch gets to live under your roof? How am I supposed to accept that?"
"Is that why you tried to kill her?"
She froze. Zeran’s glare was seething, thick with rage and so intense it made her realise lying was pointless. This man could smell filth before it even hit the air.
"I... I was just trying to fix my mistake," she said, her voice shaky.
"Mistake? So you deliberately stabbed her in the lower belly?" Zeran let out a sharp, bitter laugh. "What the fuck were you thinking? Just wanted to kill the baby?"
"Wouldn’t it be better if that unwanted child died before it’s even born? You know she will—"
"Then why did you mess around with the sperm in the first place?!" His voice shot up, brow furrowed. The sight of Lindsey’s wrist wrapped in bandages, from when she’d tried to slice her veins open with a poisoned silver blade, made his chest tighten, caught between fury and something that tasted too much like pity.
"I wanted to be yours!" Her eyes welled up, trembling. "I wanted to be part of your future—"