Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 207

Chapter 207

A lie I had told.

I could feel my mother’s eyes on me before I turned to see. She looked at me deeply and seriously, frowning.

“Don’t say it,” I warned her.

“It’s not what you think,” she said. “Come to the back for a minute. I have an idea.”

We left Sienna to claim our seats in the front of the church while my parents and I moved to the back to have a more private conversation.

By now, some of Damien’s own enforcers were helping him back to his feet and to one of the pew seats, where he collapsed again, burying his face in his hands.

“I’m not telling him anything,” I told my mother first thing. “I don’t care how grief-stricken he is, my commitment is to my sister and her happiness. Amelia shouldn’t have to live with the pain of her past anymore. This funeral, keeping them both in the dark, is the best for Amelia. Damien only ever made her feel sad.”

“I know you have stubbornly made up your mind there, and nothing I could say would change it,” she said. “You are my son but also my Alpha. While I’m not sure it’s in Amelia’s best interest, as you suspect, to entirely erase her past, I have already agreed to respect your decision here. I’m not advocating for that this time.”

“Then I don’t know what else we have to talk about,” I said.

She took a breath. “I’m thinking about Amy.”

“The baby?” Dad asked, voice revealing that he was as curious as I was.

“Who could better care for Amy than her own father?” Lillian said.

My first thought was, “You are out of your mind. After what he did to Amelia?”

“If you will not allow Amelia to remember her own child, then we must consider alternative possibilities. I’ve told you before, the baby cannot be raised in a hospital. She needs a family. And as Damien did not harm Amelia as we had thought, he at least deserves to know his child is alive.”

“Maybe,” I lamented. My cruelty in keeping Amelia hidden did not have to extend to the little girl. I was already rewriting much of Amelia’s past. Was it fair to deny Amy both parents?

Mom must have seen that she was getting through to me because she pressed.

“Do you think Damien has not learned some valuable lessons here? Amelia herself wanted him to be a part of the baby’s life, even if they weren’t together. I don’t think there’s anyone more suited to care for her than her own father.”

We all looked back at the slumped over, shattered figure of Damien.

“It might give him purpose, as well,” Mom said.

I wasn’t so sure giving a baby to a man with mate-sickness was such a good idea. On the other hand, maybe mom was right. If Damien had something to live for again, perhaps he could crawl himself out of this hole he was in.

Truly I didn’t want to be responsible for a man surrendering himself to the wild. I would carry that burden if it meant Amelia would stay safe, but if there was another way…

Also, there was the matter of Amy. We could give her to a foster family, but if Amelia someday stumbled on her,

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