Betrayed by the Father Reborn in His Rival's Arms novel Chapter 401

Quentin's gaze remained locked on Madeline.

For a long time, neither spoke.

He felt a violent ringing in his ears, completely drowning out whatever Madeline was trying to say.

Because he simply couldn't accept this reality.

How was it fair that Madeline could have a child with another man, fighting tooth and nail to reclaim him, yet be completely incapable of giving one to him?

When she first insisted on taking birth control pills, he had managed to convince himself that she just wanted to wait for the right time to get pregnant.

But now, it was written in black and white that she couldn't conceive.

She had given the best eight years of her life to Lucius Whitman.

And all she had left for him were the ruins?

If she already knew she couldn't get pregnant, why put on that whole act of taking birth control pills?

Was it a deliberate charade to hide this exact secret from him?

Snapping back to reality, Quentin didn't respond to Madeline. He simply lowered his eyes, staring at her in deafening silence.

His gaze turned somber, dark, and filled with a suffocating wave of disappointment and isolation.

Madeline had never seen such a complex storm of emotions in his eyes.

She knew that if this report was true, she was at fault.

She hesitated, desperate to explain, but found herself at a loss for words.

A freezing aura radiated continuously from Quentin.

Dropping the report onto the ground, he turned on his heel and walked away.

He needed space to calm down.

Seeing this play out, Penelope let out a loud, triumphant laugh.

Madeline bent down and picked up the paper.

Scanning it, she recognized it as the routine physical arranged by her company the previous year.

Right after the checkup, she had been urgently reassigned abroad for game development and had never picked up the results.

The hospital had tried to contact her a few times, but due to the massive time zone difference, she had missed the calls.

Madeline never imagined there was actually something wrong with her results.

And she had been completely oblivious to it.

That was exactly how Liliana and Penelope had exploited the situation.

She had no idea how they had dug into her past to unearth this private document.

Piecing it all together, Madeline immediately took off sprinting after him. "Quentin, it's not what you think! Let me explain!"

Quentin acted as if he couldn't hear her, his pace never breaking.

With his long legs, he was walking incredibly fast.

All of his closest family members had passed away. He hated being alone, and he had dreamed of having several children with Madeline once she was ready.

But her?

Setting aside the fact that she had a child with another man, she was now incapable of having his.

When he saw her voluntarily showing affection to that child and speaking so intimately with Lucius that day, how could it not have torn him apart inside? He had simply forced himself to swallow the pain.

And ultimately, did Madeline truly not know she was infertile, or was it all an elaborate lie?