Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 461

Chapter 461

When Sierra asked him if he loved Anna, Nathan froze. He had not expected her to ask the very question he had been avoiding all this while.

When she saw him freeze, Sierra asked again, “Did you love her?”

“I did. Still do,” His answer was full of resolve, his expression more serious than ever. “And that has never changed despite the years.”

If it had not been love, how could he have stayed unmarried all these years under his family’s pressure?

Sierra met his eyes. “But I don’t think you did.”

Nathan frowned slightly, not able to understand why she would say that.

“If you really loved her, you wouldn’t have let Mom’s reputation suffer.” Sierra had always seen things clearly, especially when Anna and Lucas had treated her well since she was little. “And you definitely wouldn’t have stood by and done nothing after hearing people say those things.”

“I’ll make them pay,” Nathan said.

“And then?” Sierra asked.

Nathan looked briefly confused.

Sierra cut straight to it. “They’ll say the same things again when you’re not around next time. It might get even worse because of what you do.”

“I can’t control what other people say, but I’ll do everything I can to stop it.” Nathan could not promise to wipe out every rumor. “And I won’t let you or Anna hear anything about it again.”

“That’s why I said you don’t love her.” Sierra’s tone turned colder, and even the last hint of respect in her tone was gone.

Nathan’s eyes darkened.

Sierra gave him the simplest example. “Do you know why John and I came from completely different worlds, yet no one has dared say a word about it in public all these years? Because he said he loved me in front of everyone. He said I was the only one for him, and if any of them messed with me, they were messing with him too.”

“Things between your mother and I were more complicated,” Nathan explained; he did not want her to misunderstand. “There are some things that I couldn’t make public.”

“It was complicated back then, but it can’t still be complicated now, can it?” Sierra’s words were blunt as she retorted his point directly. “After hearing those people say all those things, did you ever tell anyone you loved Mom? When they said Mom ruined things between you and your fiancee, did you ever clear her name?”

Nathan fell silent.

He had not…

“You never did,” Sierra said, stressing each word.

“I didn’t think it through.” Nathan did not argue and chose to face Sierra’s inquisition head on.

“No. It wasn’t that you didn’t think it through,” she cut him off. “You just love yourself more than you loved her.”

Sierra showed him no mercy and revealed it all. At this moment, all she cared about was her mother.

“If you really care about it, you never would have gotten her pregnant when you already knew you had no chance of ending up together.”

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Back in that era, an unmarried woman who got pregnant had to bear far more slander and scorn than now.

Anna had paid the price for her impulsive passion, but Nathan hadn’t. He walked away without having to bear any of it. When people blamed someone, they almost always blamed the woman first.

Thinking of what Holly had told him earlier, Nathan didn’t defend himself. “I’ll deal with everything you mentioned. And I’ll give you and your mother an answer you’ll be happy with.”

Sierra said nothing else.

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