The Wife He Forgot to Marry (Winona and Yule) novel Chapter 194

She just needed an excuse to come back, and he was happy to provide one. “Alright, stop giving me the cold shoulder,” Yulen said, trying to pull her into an embrace. “The old Winona was never like this. I miss her.”

He hadn't been intimate with her in a while and found himself missing it. Tallulah might be more exciting, but even that could get old. Besides, with her in the early stages of pregnancy, he couldn't do much anyway. After weeks of abstinence, he found himself craving Winona’s body. The scars on her leg were a turn-off, but with the lights off, he could overcome his psychological barrier. “Come home tonight,” he murmured. “We can have a baby. Nikita would be thrilled if she knew you were pregnant.”

Winona recoiled from his touch, disgusted. What did he think she was? A tool for his sexual release? A thoughtless, emotionless puppet he could control with a few empty words?

“Yulen, I told you, I’m not going back,” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “And don’t think I don’t know that your relationship with Tallulah is more than just professional—”

Before she could finish, his phone rang. It was Camille. After a brief, serious conversation, he hung up. “I have to get back to the office,” he told Winona. “Think about it, Winona. If I didn’t love you, why would I be so patient with you and Nikita?”

When she remained silent, he sighed in frustration and hurried away.

Back in the room, Nikita said, “Yulen left a file on the sofa. Could you take it to him?”

Feeling a small debt of gratitude for the care he’d shown her grandmother, Winona picked up the file and left. In the hospital’s underground garage, she spotted Yulen. She was about to call out to him when she overheard him speaking with his assistant.

“Understood.”

Only after Yulen’s car had driven away did Winona allow the sobs to break free. He had tampered with Nikita’s medicine. Her latest crisis, the surgery… it was all his 'masterpiece'. She cried for a few moments, then forced herself to calm down, wiping the tears from her face before returning to the hospital room. Nikita was asleep again. Looking at the needle marks on the old woman’s hands and her exhausted face, Winona gritted her teeth. She had to get her out of this hospital. But with Yulen controlling everyone from the doctors to the administration, how could she possibly move her?

An image of Stefan Goddard flashed in her mind. The only family with enough power to stand against the Lockes was the Goddards. With trembling hands, she dialed his number. The call connected, but the voice that answered wasn't his.