The Triplets My Ex Never Knew About novel Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Goodbye, Mr. Sloan

Editor: Henyee Translations

"I’m your mother! How dare you speak to me like that? Noelle is pregnant with Nathaniel’s child. You must divorce him immediately. If you don’t, I will not be held responsible for whatever happens next!"

A sharp slap had landed on Estelle Lockwood’s face before she was subjected to this angry tirade.

Estelle looked up at the woman who had done this. It was Rose Lowell, the woman who claimed to be her own mother.

At nine months pregnant, while waiting to give birth alone in a hospital room, Estelle had allowed herself to feel foolishly hopeful when the nurse had announced that she had visitors.

She had naively thought that her parents had finally remembered her existence. Instead, they had come to tell her that her sister was pregnant with her husband’s child.

"Rose, that’s enough." Adrian Lockwood entered the room at the sound of the commotion. "Estelle is also our daughter after all."

Then, he turned to her. "Just get an abortion and divorce Nathaniel. I know it may be hard on your body, but don’t blame your mother and me for favoring Noelle. If you hadn’t shown up here, Nathaniel and Noelle would have been married years ago. Your marriage to Nathaniel was a mistake right from the beginning. If you have any humanity left in you, you’ll let Noelle have him again, won’t you?"

Rose glared at Estelle and snapped, "No need to waste your breath on such an ungrateful brat. If she won’t listen, we’ll make her do it."

Before Adrian left the ward, he placed a consent form for induced labor on the bedside table. "See? Nathaniel agrees with us, too. Be sensible and save yourself any unnecessary trouble."

Estelle watched them quietly as they left, the last trace of the familial bond between them vanishing along with them.

When she was a little girl, she had been abducted by human traffickers due to atrocious negligence on Rose’s part. For eighteen years, her life had been stolen, while Noelle Lockwood had lived a nice life in her place.

The Lockwoods had looked for her, not because they had felt guilty about her fate, but because Noelle had fallen ill and they had needed her to donate her bone marrow to her.

And then there was Nathaniel, whom she had loved deeply.

Estelle lowered her eyes to the signed consent form. After a long moment, she picked up her phone and called Nathaniel Sloan.

Meanwhile, two nurses happened to walk past the ward.

One of them whispered excitedly, "Guess what... I just saw Nathaniel Sloan and Noelle Lockwood!"

Estelle paused.

The nurse continued, "Noelle said that she had a stomachache, and her fiancé wouldn’t leave her side. They even used a VIP pass. He was such a caring and considerate fiancé."

"He’s not a mere fiancé! Noelle is going to be Mrs. Sloan very soon."

"Noelle was born in a noble family, and now Mr. Sloan will become her husband. She has definitely won the life lottery. Do you think that all Lockwoods are born lucky?"

"Not every single one of them. There is a pregnant Lockwood girl in that ward, and her parents are just ignoring her! She will be going into labor soon, and her own husband hasn’t even shown up."

Estelle felt like she couldn’t breathe. Her heart seemed to be broken in a million pieces, causing pain to spread throughout her entire body.

Then, her call went through.

Nathaniel frowned as he answered the call.

"Hello? Estelle, is that you?" he asked, sounding very distant.

"Where are you? I need to talk to you right now." Estelle sounded as fragile as a piece of glass ready to break at a single touch.

Frowning even deeper, Nathaniel said in a lower tone, "I’m not available."

Estelle’s eyes reddened, yet she replied stubbornly, "You’re not available? Then who is the man standing next to Noelle right now?"

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