Don’t Fall for the Billionaire Lover novel Chapter 420

No one knew how he managed to come back. No one knew the kind of hardships he had faced out there.

When he saw her being punished, forced to kneel in the room, he still covered for her. "She didn’t lose me. I wandered off on my own."

Despite everything she did to him over the years, he never complained about her in front of Jeffery or Marian. Not until that one day when he was ten.

That day, she pushed him into the swimming pool. Connor had always been terrified of water and had never learned to swim. As he fell into the water, he stared at her with sheer disbelief in his eyes.

He struggled at first, shouting, "Save me, save me!" But she just stood there on the shore, indifferent. Her fingers clenched and she started shaking all over. She watched as the disbelief in his eyes turned to pain, then to despair. By the time he sank, he had stopped struggling, just staring at her with a look of pure hopelessness.

In that moment, she saw the birth of hatred in his eyes. For years, that look would continue to haunt her dreams. When Connor lay at the bottom of the pool, she finally softened for a moment. Her frantic screams brought the butler running, and they managed to pull him out. By then, Connor had been suffocating for several minutes. Everyone was in a panic, trying to revive him, while she just stood by.