Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 581

Ivy didn't know how to explain the tangled mess between her and Alaric.

So she simply shouldered all the blame herself.

"I lost Stella. I have no right to face Alaric."

She looked at Xavier, her voice barely above a whisper as she pleaded,

"Xavier, I'm out of the woods now. Can you please keep this a secret from him?"

Xavier looked at her in sheer disbelief.

"You don't want him to know you had his baby? You want to raise her all by yourself out here?"

He only knew that the little girl named Stella had been sent away to Northport.

He had no idea she had gone completely missing.

Alaric cherished that child more than anything. If Ivy had truly lost her, his fury was entirely understandable.

But as the biological father, Alaric had every right to know this baby existed.

Keeping a secret of this magnitude felt deeply wrong to Xavier.

"I can raise her perfectly well on my own."

Ivy was resolute in her conviction.

She would never allow her daughter to endure the deeply scarred childhood she had lived through.

She would pour every ounce of her soul and love into this child. Even without a father, her daughter would be the happiest little girl in the world.

If she dragged the baby back to Alaric, the massive rift between them would only poison the child's life.

Stella was never coming back.

The crushing guilt would always eat at her, and Alaric's underlying resentment would never fade.

Two people chained together by that kind of tragedy could never raise a happy child.

"Fine. It's your life, your call," Xavier finally relented.

He knew he had no real authority to dictate her choices.

But keeping this monumental secret? He simply couldn't do it.

It wasn't about running to the Foster family to curry favor or demand a reward.

It was a simple matter of principle—this was Alaric's flesh and blood, and the man deserved the truth.