Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 584

She desperately wished it was because of Stella.

She just wanted him to tell her that they had found her, and that the little girl was perfectly safe.

But there was nothing.

Alaric said, "When you told me Sylvia might have hidden Stella, I pushed her into a corner to force her to hand the girl over."

"I never expected that after I kicked her out of the hotel that night, she would die in a car crash."

"When she died, every single lead on Stella died with her. I haven't found a trace of her since."

He felt zero guilt for driving Sylvia to her death.

That woman had lingered around him with pure malice, plotting to kidnap his child. She got exactly what she deserved.

But her death had severed his only link to Stella.

And for that, he carried a deep, simmering regret.

He couldn't stop thinking that if he hadn't forced her hand, if she hadn't crashed, he might have been able to squeeze Stella's location out of her by now.

For half a year, he had been suffocating in an agonizing spiral of guilt and rage.

He was completely out of options.

Terrified that he would snap and direct his fury at Ivy, he had purposefully stayed away.

Ivy snapped her head up, staring at Alaric in utter horror.

She couldn't believe what she was hearing.

Sylvia died in a car crash?

How was that even possible?

She sat frozen in stunned silence, unable to process the sheer weight of his words.

Now, it was Alaric's turn to go on the offensive.

"Answer me. Why did you hide the pregnancy? Hiding something this dangerous—giving birth all alone? Ivy, what do you honestly think I am to you?"

He had his reasons for staying away.

But this baby was both of theirs.

What right did she have to keep this from him?