Billionaire's Betrayal: My Ex Beg Me To Love Him Again novel Chapter 71

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The day I took Sophia home was the day I saw what true despair looked like. Looking back, I realized that forcing a pregnant woman to face something so heart–wrenching was just cruel. The look of pain and betrayal on Caroline’s face still lingered in my mind even now. 

Although the terrible truth would have eventually come out somehow, I was wrong in how I chose to reveal it. 

Before the nightmare truly began, it was Sophia who had requested that I bring her to meet Caroline. 

“I just want to see what she looks like,” she explained simply. “I want to see if you’re happy in your marriage.” 

“And if we are?” I questioned, suspicion lacing my voice. 

Sophia’s smile was polite, but something about it didn’t quite meet her eyes. Her voice was so sickly sweet as she spoke, but her tone gave me pause. “Then I won’t bother you anymore,” she replied firmly. “I’ll leave and take care of this baby on my own.” 

Just the idea itself sounded like a catastrophe waiting to happen, but I still foolishly agreed to her request. In hindsight, it was probably one of the worst mistakes I could have made. 

I chose to coldly confess the truth to Caroline with my heavily pregnant Sophia by my side and even ruthlessly propose divorce. I thought I could smooth over our marital crisis, but I was 

wrong. 

Whatever Caroline wanted as a recompense, I told myself, whether it be some of my assets or else, I’m willing to give it to her, just so long as we could resolve this peacefully. 

I thought so at the time and naively believing that she would be compromised by my self- righteous generosity. 

Unfortunately, a peaceful resolution just wasn’t in the cards for me, and everything had swiftly gone horribly, horribly wrong. 

I wasn’t prepared for just how badly she reacted, and I became fully alarmed when she outright passed out in front of us. I still remember rushing to her side to check on her, only to have Sophia insistently tug on my shoulder to pull me away. 

“Leave her be,” she said. The annoyance in her voice surprised me, but her seemingly harmless explanation kept me from realizing the dark thoughts in her mind. 

“I mean, leave her to the doctor.” she added, dodging her eyes. How stupid of me to think she was frightened by my astonished look. 

I nodded and contacted an ambulance, praying that things would calm down from there. Instead of the wave of calm I was hoping for, I got the exact opposite. Things only escalated 

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when Caroline came into our ward later on, screaming at me for the betrayal I had put her through. I thought she was just acting crazy, but when she revealed how she’d lost her baby, our baby, I was shell–shocked. 

I had never wanted something this tragic to befall us. Daniel was my son, too, after all. How could one expect a father to not feel sorrow at the loss of his son? On the contrary, I was in great pain! But I didn’t admit it then, which was one of my biggest regrets in my whole life. 

When Sophia and Caroline fell into the water simultaneously, the EMS team came quickly. I always thought of Caroline as a strong and tough woman, both inside and out, so I thoroughly believed she would have been able to swim out of that murky lake. Never had I been so wrong in my life. 

When the fateful accident occurred, I had been caringly tending to Sophia by the lake while EMS ran into the vicinity. “We got reports of two pregnant women falling into the lake,” she announced. “Where’s the other?”