He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 144

The man's warm palm gently caressed the back of her hand, sending a faint current of electricity straight to her heart. It threatened to shatter every single defensive wall she had painstakingly built over this entire period.

For a brief, agonizing moment, Scarlett truly wavered.

Looking down at the sleeping baby in her arms, she remembered the hopes she had harbored the day she found out she was pregnant. She had wanted to give her daughter a complete home, allowing her to grow up surrounded by her parents' love.

But just as her emotional barricades were on the verge of collapsing, Yardley's next words struck her like a bucket of ice water.

"Scarlett, let's start over. Let's just put everything that happened in the past behind us, okay?"

"Treat what happened to your mother back then as a tragic accident. Don't dig into it anymore. Please?"

"From now on, the three of us will live a good life together. I promise you, I will never let you suffer another grievance."

Scarlett's pupils shrank instantly.

She remained dead silent for a few seconds. Then, using every ounce of strength she possessed, she shoved violently out of his embrace.

"You really haven't changed at all, Yardley."

Taking a step back, her eyes iced over, burning with a coldness even sharper than when Corinne had been in the room.

"What makes you think I would ever trade my mother's innocence and dignity for your twisted version of a happy family?"

"I will investigate what happened to my mother until the very end. I don't care who is involved. I will not let a single one of them get away with it."

She stared straight into his eyes, every word slicing like a dagger.

"So don't even try to smooth things over. Now, it's my turn to ask you a question."

"If I uncover the truth of the past and your mother is one of the suspects, will you choose to help her cover up her crimes, or will you stand by my side and get justice for my mother?"

"Make your choice, Yardley."

Yardley was completely caught off guard.

He never expected that after exhausting himself—even going so far as to forcefully rebel against his own mother just to soften Scarlett's attitude—they would be instantly dragged right back to square one over a feud from the previous generation.

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