No Sex for Six Years Because of Her? I'm Done novel Chapter 710

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Chapter 710 He Knows

Amelia held down the wave of feeling that was threatening to pull her under.

“So when you first met me, you already knew?”

Lenny gave a slow, heavy hod, his gaze drifting somewhere behind her eyes toward a memory she hadn’t been part of.

“Yes.

“When I first saw you, I was genuinely stunned. I couldn’t understand how anyone in the world could look so much like Demi.”

He paused, searching for the right words. “And there was something else. A pull I felt toward you that I couldn’t explain. Some instinct deep inside me just knew. I understand how that sounds, but Amelia, I’ve never doubted what that feeling was.

“After that meeting I had people look into everything between you and Hannah. When I read the report, when I found out you’d been raised by the Harlows, when I understood the full shape of what had happened between the two of you, and considered the timing of Hannah showing up, I was essentially certain. You were my daughter and Demi’s.”

All this time, while she had known nothing, he had already been sure of who she was, quietly watching over her from a distance.

“My reasons for insisting on bringing Hannah to Eldorja were twofold. I wanted to let the situation play out and see what the person behind her was actually after, then find the right moment to expose everything. And at the same time, I was waiting for the right opening to come to you.

“But I didn’t account for…”

Lenny’s voice broke. “I was watching for whoever had sent a fake daughter to my door. It never once crossed my mind to question Faye. And the entire time, she was the one who had driven Demi to her end. She had been doing it from the beginning.”

“And because I failed to see it, because of my blind spot, you nearly died in that fire!”

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The words seemed to take the last of his composure with them. He bent forward and pressed both hands over his face, and the grief that came out of him was raw and completely unguarded.

“Amelia. I’m so sorry. I’ve been a failure of a father.

“I couldn’t protect your mother. And then I nearly lost you the same way. The person responsible was standing right next to me for years and I never saw it. If anything had happened to you the way it happened to her, I wouldn’t have been able to face her. Not ever.”

Amelia sat with his grief and felt the weight of her own pressing back.

space of a single conversation, she had learned where she came from and found the person she was blood-connected to.

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And the truth woven through all of it was the unbearable story of how her mother had died.

It was too much at once, too heavy, too’sharp. It pressed the breath out of her.

She understood, with the part of her mind that could still reason clearly, that Lenny had been deceived and hurt across the same span of years she had been. He wasn’t a villain in this story.

But the emotional truth was different. This was a stranger sitting at her bedside calling himself her father, and nothing in her could make that feel natural yet.

The word wouldn’t come. It simply wasn’t there.

The room stayed quiet for a long time, the only sound Lenny’s low, unsteady breathing as he fought to pull himself back together.

Amelia’s dry lips moved. She reached out finally and laid her hand gently on his trembling shoulder. “Stop,” she said softly. “Please.

“What’s happened has happened. There’s no undoing any of it.”

Lenny lifted his head slowly. His face was marked with everything the years had cost him, and his eyes were red and wet.

Amelia continued in the same quiet, measured voice. “I know you didn’t intend for things to turn out this way. But I have to be honest with you. I can’t move that fast. I’m not ready to call you what you are yet.”

She needed time. All she had right now was the bare, overwhelming fact of it.

The light in Lenny’s eyes dimmed for a moment.

He wiped his face and steadied himself.

“That’s all right,” he said. “As long as you don’t hate me, that’s more than enough.”

The flood of revelations had pushed Amelia’s already battered body and mind past their limit.

The exhaustion was pressing in from every direction.

She drew her hand back and said quietly, “I’m tired. I need to rest.”

It was a gentle dismissal, and he understood it immediately.

“Of course.” He was on his feet before she’d finished the sentence, careful not to take up one more second than she’d offered. “Rest. I’ll be right outside. Call for me if you need anything”

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