Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding novel Chapter 360

Raelynn didn't flinch away from his stare. The moment the words left her mouth, she watched the man's knuckles turn bone-white as his grip on the lighter tightened.

Sebastian seemed struck by an intense wave of shock. For a fraction of a second, Raelynn watched his pupils constrict.

She found it almost comical.

So Sebastian was capable of feeling something after all.

He could actually be moved by her, though she had no idea what kind of emotion was churning behind those dark eyes.

"What... what do you mean, you had a baby?" Matilda demanded, her grip tightening painfully on Raelynn's shoulder.

Sebastian didn't speak.

But he was waiting for the answer, too.

Raelynn gave a small, indifferent smile, as if she couldn't care less. She let Dr. Quinn's reading hang in the air before saying, "I got pregnant once. But I miscarried. I just never told Sebastian."

The atmosphere instantly froze.

Especially with how casually she uttered his name, hiding such a colossal secret from him all this time.

It added a layer of profound, bitter irony to the room.

"When did this happen?! Why on earth didn't you tell the family immediately when you found out you were pregnant? And how is a miscarriage the same as giving birth?" Matilda was furious. If Raelynn had just spoken up, the family could have given her the best medical care and saved the child!

Raelynn anticipated the heavy skepticism.

She kept her composure, deliberately keeping her eyes off the eerily silent Sebastian.

Even though she could feel the burning weight of his stare.

"Dr. Quinn will tell you," Raelynn said smoothly. "A miscarriage takes a massive toll on a woman's vitality and blood flow. The resulting pulse is practically identical to someone who carried to term. I didn't take proper care of myself afterward, so the physical damage was much more severe."

Dr. Quinn nodded in agreement. "She's not wrong. That concept is well-documented in our medical texts. However, your body took an immense amount of damage. Was this an accidental miscarriage or a voluntary termination?"

That question.

Raelynn still refused to look at him.

Though the tension in the room was suffocating, she detached herself from it.

They brought this upon themselves.

To keep Lily a secret, she had no choice but to construct a plausible lie. If she had stubbornly denied being pregnant, it would have immediately tipped Sebastian off. He wasn't stupid; he would have dug into her past the second she showed any suspicious desperation.

Matilda's emotions were a chaotic mess of anger and relief. She was furious that Raelynn had hidden a pregnancy, but relieved that Raelynn was medically sound and capable of giving them an heir.

She hurriedly began barking orders for the staff to fetch and brew the herbs.

Amid the sudden flurry of activity.

Sebastian sat frozen in his chair, eyes cast downward, his thumb methodically rubbing the battered lighter.

Matilda looked at him with exasperated annoyance, yet unsurprised by his lack of reaction. "What is wrong with you? Your wife suffered through such a traumatic ordeal. We could have had a beautiful baby. The least you could do is offer her some comfort!"