Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 179

That fool Lucas actually admitted it?!

Had he forgotten the deal he made with Anna?!

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“I asked him who my real dad is, and he told me to ask you,” Sierra said to Jubilee, sounding completely believable.

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“Oh, honey…” Jubilee kept her expression calm from beginning to end, still thinking she could talk her way around this. “Is there any chance the testing center and Lucas both lied to you?”

“He has no reason to lie to me about this,” Sierra said.

“He does.” Jubilee’s answer was firm.

Sierra stared at Jubilee. “How does that make sense?”

“Have you forgotten where he is right now?” Jubilee already knew Lucas’s recent situation from their earlier chats. “He went from being the owner of a company to a guy washing glasses in a bar. Of course he feels bitter. Give it enough time, and anyone would crack.”

Sierra honestly couldn’t follow that logic. “And what does that have to do with him lying to me?”

“Think about it. You are John’s wife. Even if you’re in the middle of the divorce, it’s not finalized yet,” Jubilee said, as if convincing herself. “He thinks you can pull him out of his mess, but you won’t.”

Sierra frowned at that thought.

“If he’s upset, he wants you to be upset too,” Jubilee finished patiently,

“Jubilee.” Sierra wasn’t buying it at all. Jubilee’s response when Sierra asked her the first question was too strange. “Do you realize you have a habit?”

Jubilee kept her composure. “What habit?”

“Whenever you feel guilty, you start talking a lot without stopping.”

Sierra was only stating a fact. Her mom had pointed it out years ago, after watching Jubilee bicker with her over and over again.

Jubilee fell silent.

Her composure was cracking for real now. She had played the dating game for decades, yet she was getting cornered by a kid.

“Lucas isn’t my biological father, and that’s a fact,” Sierra said. She was all mixed up, but she hid it well. “Right now, I just want to know why my mom got together with him.”

“Then go to a few more labs and get tested again,” Jubilee said suddenly.

Sierra blinked. “What?”

“I’m one hundred percent sure Lucas is your dad.”

Not really.

Jubilee slipped back into her usual easy tone. “But you had better be careful for a while. I keep feeling like

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someone has their eye on you.”

Sierra hadn’t expected Jubilee to change the direction of the conversation so fast.

“Have you crossed anyone recently?” Jubilee asked.

Sierra shook her head. “No.”

Aside from John and Pamela, those two couldn’t possibly know about any of this.

“Who pushed you to do the paternity test?” Jubilee pressed, her concern looking and sounding completely real.

Sierra was thrown off. “What do you mean?”

She was smart, and she knew using a fake result to corner someone was the quickest way to shake the truth loose. However fast a beginner might be, they would still be outsmarted by an experienced person who learned from Anna herself.

Jubilee was glad that most of the time she had held her tongue instead of answering on impulse, and that she had spotted the real problem at the critical moment.

Otherwise, she might actually have fallen for Sierra’s bluff this time.

“Someone’s trying to mess with your head,” Jubilee warned Sierra. “I’ll come back in a few days, so you won’t end up being led around in circles.”

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