Trick Him Into Divorce, Then Flee With His Unknow Kid novel Chapter 418

Chapter 418: Chapter 418 No Way Out

Ryan didn’t stop Rose.

He knew that sooner or later, she and Trevor would have to stop hiding things from each other. This confrontation might finally force Rose to see the Robinson family—and Trevor himself—for what they really were.

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By the time Rose reached Ocean Star, Trevor had just finished a meeting.

He was still sitting behind his desk when the door opened.

The moment he saw Rose walk in, he knew something had happened.

He had expected this.

“Sit down.”

Trevor put his pen aside and rose from his chair.

Rose didn’t move toward the sofa.

She stood several feet away, staring at him.

On the way over, she’d done everything she could to get her emotions under control. But now that she was standing in front of him, she realized something had changed.

The man she’d once trusted no longer looked the way he had in her memories.

“Did you know?”

Her voice was quiet.

Trevor’s expression remained calm.

“Know what?”

“Don’t.”

Rose’s eyes hardened.

“Did you know the Robinson family planned to use Ariel as leverage to get what they wanted from the Knight family?”

Silence.

That was all the answer she needed.

Of course he knew.

Trevor was the Robinson family’s heir. Nothing important happened within the family without eventually reaching him.

Rose let out a bitter laugh.

“How long were you planning to keep me in the dark?”

Trevor studied her.

“Don’t you trust me?”

Rose stared at him.

“Mr. Robinson, I’m not naive enough to think I’m important enough to you that you’d sacrifice your family’s interests for me.”

Her voice remained steady.

“And let’s be honest. Whatever relationship we have has never reached that point.”

She wasn’t trying to hurt him.

She was simply telling him the truth.

Years ago, when Trevor had helped her establish Ariel’s legal custody arrangement, they’d both known exactly what they were doing.

He needed her and Ariel to help him avoid the marriage his family had arranged for him.

Rose needed his protection to keep Ariel hidden.

It had been an arrangement that benefited them both.

But somewhere along the way, everything had changed.

No one had known then that Rose was actually the long-lost heiress of the Taylor family.

Trevor’s expression darkened.

“So, you’ve already decided what kind of person I am.”

Rose didn’t answer.

She had no interest in arguing about his character.

“The Robinson family has no right to use my daughter as a bargaining chip.”

Her voice sharpened.

“Whatever deal you made with me years ago is finished. You helped me when I needed you, and I helped you when you needed me. Neither of us owes the other anything anymore.”

She paused.

“But the moment your family decided Ariel could be traded for business advantages, that arrangement ended.”

Trevor’s eyes remained fixed on her.

Rose took a breath.

“The wedding is off.”

For a moment, Trevor said nothing.

Rose had already made up her mind.

She would take Ariel and leave.

There would be legal procedures to deal with, but the Robinson and Knight families couldn’t simply make the transfer happen overnight. And now that their intentions were out in the open, Rose could no longer pretend this was something she could quietly negotiate away.

“The wedding is off?”

Trevor repeated.

Rose nodded.

“Yes.”

Those two words landed harder than she expected.

Trevor’s mind immediately went somewhere else.

He remembered Alicia’s warnings.

Perhaps Rose still had feelings for Ryan.

With Ariel between them, perhaps there was still a bond he couldn’t see.

And if that was true, what exactly did Ryan want from Rose now?

Trevor’s gaze grew colder.

“What if I don’t agree?”

Rose frowned.

“What?”

“I said, what if I refuse to cancel it?”

Her expression hardened.

“Mr. Robinson, what exactly do you want?”

The question came out almost incredulously.

The Robinson family had just stabbed her in the back, and Trevor was still standing there as though he had every right to demand something from her.

Trevor took a step toward her.

“I already told you.”

His eyes didn’t leave hers.

“I want you.”

Rose’s expression changed.

Trevor continued quietly.

“We were supposed to end up together anyway. Our families had an agreement long before either of us knew the truth about each other. Then, years later, we somehow ended up agreeing to marry without even realizing the connection.”

A faint, humorless smile touched his lips.

“Call it coincidence. Call it fate. I don’t really care what you call it.”

Rose took a step back.

“Have you forgotten?”

Her voice was cold.

“That engagement was officially called off long time ago.”

Trevor’s expression shifted.

She was right.

And suddenly, another thought occurred to him.

The timing had always bothered him.

Samantha had appeared out of nowhere, the scandal had exploded, and both families had been forced to cancel the engagement to protect their reputations.

At the time, Trevor had accepted the explanation.

But now...

His gaze darkened.

Had Ryan really been uninvolved?

What if the entire scandal had been deliberately engineered?

What if Ryan had known about the engagement between the Robinson and Taylor families and had quietly manipulated events to destroy it before it could become a marriage?

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