RedNovelRegret 212 Her sudden embrace caught Evander completely off guard. For a moment, he didn't push her away. At that instant, Tricia finally noticed there was someone else in the hospital room.
Charlotte stood there, expressionless, watching the scene unfold. She offered a faint, detached smile. “Looks like I should give you two the room." Before Tricia could say a word, Evander pulled her out of his arms and walked toward Charlotte. "Go home. I'll be there soon." Charlotte didn't reply. She simply turned and walked out.
Tricia bit her lip, slipping in front of Evander to block his path, desperate to catch his eye. "Evander, I really don't want to be transferred out of the hospital... Could you please talk to your grandmother for me?" She reached for his hand, but as soon as she touched him, Evander abruptly shook her off.
Tricia froze, stunned.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe looked up into his cold, piercing eyes, and her body trembled. "Evander?" "When did it start between you and Jonathan?" His gaze was sharp, full of restraint-and disappointment.
A chill ran down Tricia's spine. Panic took over. “Evander, what are you talking about? There's nothing betweenand Mr. Pembroke, I-" "The surveillance at The Blossom Hotel," he cut her off.
Instantly, all the color drained from her face. She had no words.
Leaning against the drinks cabinet, Evander lit a cigarette and stared at her, his tone even and detached. "I only found out after I had Natalie hack into the hotel's security footage. Turns out you and Jonathan have met up plenty of times. You always booked the sroom." Tears streamed down Tricia's face. She stumbled, legs buckling, and collapsed at his feet.
Sobbing, she clutched at his pant leg. "Evander, it's not what you think! He forced me!" "He thought I was your man and wanted revenge-he's been forcingto be with 13.05 Chapter 212 him. He said if I didn't agree, he'd go after Hans, even if Hans is part of the Howard family!" "Even now, you're still lying to me." Evander let out a short, bitter laugh. The shadows on his face cleared as he locked eyes with her. "Jonathan already figured out my connection with Charlotte. If he was going to use anyone, it would've been her." Then, he bent down and gripped her chin tightly. "When Jonathan passed the sleep medication project through you to Charlotte, it was a setup-a classic damsel-in-distress move. But you switched the room number on your own, played your own game, didn't you?" Tricia went rigid, her breath caught in her throat.
"Sthings I'm not blind to," Evander said, releasing her and stubbing out his cigarette in the ashtray. He walked past her to the window. "I just didn't want to believe it was you." He'd always indulged Tricia because of that stubborn old love-a love that had once. driven him to do everything just to marry her. But fate had twisted things, and he ended up with Charlotte instead.
And then Tricia disappeared for six years. Not a word, not even a proper goodbye.
When she finally reappeared, disheveled and alone with a child, she told him she'd been forced to leave.
He should have resented her.
But resentment was tangled up with guilt and pity. He hated himself for not fighting back sooner, for not refusing when his grandmother forced him to marry someone else. Now everything was a mess-nothing could be unraveled.
Even knowing he and Tricia could never be again, he still tried to make it up to her giving her and her son the ET best life he could manage. Almost as good as Charlotte's...
Tricia was innocent, but was Charlotte any less so?
The first the found out Tricia had played tricks at the hospital to m embarrass Charlotte, he told himself that Charlotte was sensible and generous-she'd understand. He'd make it up to her in the end. He kept telling himself that, over and over, until the hole he'd dug was too deep to fill.
1305 Chapter 212 Tricia, dazed and desperate, crawled to his feet. "Evander... I only wanted to scare
her, I swear. I never meant to actually hurt her! I regret it, Evander, I never wanted to put her life in danger!" "And what about Hiram and her parents?" Chapter 213 Chapter 213
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