Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 43

Liliana stared at him in confusion.

"What did I lie to you about?"

Linton's face was coated in frost. He strode over, his large hand with its well-defined knuckles seizing her slender white wrist.

He clenched his jaw, his eyes blazing with fury, and squeezed the words out from between his teeth. "I just had people search the landfill. They didn't find the engagement ring!"

Liliana looked at him, stunned. For a moment, her brain short-circuited.

He actually went to search a landfill for the ring?!

"Linton, are you insane?" she asked, her face a mask of disbelief.

"Where did you throw it?" he demanded, his eyes turning red at the edges.

Liliana was still reeling from the shock. She glanced at the clock on her nightstand and realized she had been asleep for three hours.

She looked at him, her expression a mixture of pity and exasperation. "On a hot day like this, you actually made people go through the trash..."

Linton paused, then let out a bitter laugh. "What are you thinking? I paid them."

"Five million for half an hour's work. Fifty million if they found it. They were all volunteers. There were so many people that the whole place was searched in an hour."

"...Well, that was generous of you."

"I was just providing the money, not the labor. You have to pay well for a job like that." Linton scowled, refusing to be sidetracked. "The ring. It wasn't at the landfill. Where did you throw it?"

Liliana hadn't expected Linton to go to such crazy lengths. A pang of guilt hit her. Her conflict with Linton shouldn't involve innocent people, even if they were well-compensated.

"I don't want to love you anymore! I'm tired! I want to break the engagement! I am serious! I am not having a tantrum, and I am not joking!"

She couldn't control her emotions; she felt like she was in a terrible state. She didn't know how else to make people listen, to make them see her request as valid. It seemed no matter how she expressed herself, everyone just saw a spoiled heiress acting out.

They would look at Linton with pity, thinking how unfortunate he was to be stuck with a fiancée who threw such inexplicable fits.

Liliana felt like she was going crazy, being driven mad by it all.

Her agitation grew, tears streaming down her face, her lips trembling. "The engagement ring is mine! Since I'm breaking off the engagement, I can do whatever I want with it! What does it have to do with you?"

"Forget throwing it in the ocean! Even if I smashed it into dust and scattered it to the winds, that would be my right!"

Watching Liliana's emotional breakdown, Linton frowned, a dull ache spreading through his chest. He was silent for a long moment before sighing in resignation. His large, warm hand gently cupped her face, wiping away her tears.