Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 451

Liliana Hart was in a complete daze.

She still couldn't process it, even as she sat on the plane to Solmere City.

Gabriel Hart sat beside her. He looked down at Liliana's vacant expression, a pang of sympathy in his eyes.

He gently took her trembling hand and said comfortingly, "Liliana."

"Don't be afraid. I'll be right here with you."

Liliana's mind was blank.

She stared straight ahead, her lips pale and bloodless. They trembled, and it took a long time for her to find her voice. When she finally spoke, her tone was hoarse and quiet.

"Gabriel…"

"Do you think there's really such a thing as fate in this world?"

Gabriel Hart didn't know what to say.

He frowned slightly and gently ruffled her hair. "Silly girl, don't overthink things," he coaxed.

"Really?" Liliana asked.

She slowly lowered her gaze, a bitter smile touching her lips.

"But Gabriel, I can't help but feel like fate loves to play jokes on me."

"Back when Linton Cooper was still around, I truly believed Mr. Grayson was dead. I thought I was the one who killed him, and it was a hurdle I could never clear in my mind."

"But now, Linton is dead, and you're telling me that Mr. Grayson is actually alive…"

A look of confusion crossed Liliana's delicate, fair face. She was terrifyingly pale, as if she were made of fragile paper, ready to be blown over by the slightest breeze. She exuded a sense of lost fragility that was heartbreaking to see.

Her eyes were red, but she didn't know what she was supposed to be feeling. She didn't know if she should cry or laugh.

It all just felt so absurd.

Truly absurd.

Liliana couldn't quite describe it, but it was a complex mix of emotions that left an ache in her chest.

Gabriel couldn't bear to hear her talk like that. He pulled her into an embrace, comforting her in a warm voice.

"Liliana, don't think like that."

"There are no gods in this world, and no fate. We make our own way."

"Linton spared no expense, using a vast amount of resources and never giving up the search before he finally found Matthew. I regret Linton's death, but that was his father's doing. It has nothing to do with you."

Gabriel gently patted her back again and again, sighing deeply as he patiently tried to soothe her.

"Liliana, don't dwell on it. It's all in the past."

"Some things would have happened even if you weren't involved."

Damian Cooper was an ambitious man. Liliana's presence or absence wouldn't have stopped him from trying to take over the Grayson family and going after Matthew.

Nor would it have stopped him from being enraged by Linton's defiance, leading him to try and kill his own son in a fit of anger so he could start over and groom a new heir, one he could control completely like a puppet without a mind of its own.