Trick Him Into Divorce, Then Flee With His Unknow Kid novel Chapter 440

Chapter 440: Chapter 440 The Child Who Never Died

Victoria’s sudden outburst made everyone turn toward her.

She had been standing quietly nearby, but now her face had gone pale. Something in her expression was so raw that even Ryan’s eyes narrowed.

Derick stared at her.

“What do you mean?”

Victoria swallowed.

“Alicia’s health has always been complicated. There are other issues we need to consider.” Her voice shook slightly. “The hospital can get the blood from another blood bank.”

No one noticed the hand hidden beneath her sleeve.

It was trembling violently.

She had never expected Alicia to throw herself in front of Rose.

She had never expected any of this.

James stared at Victoria.

The longer he looked at her, the colder his expression became.

“She’s in critical condition,” he said. “You raised her for all these years. Whether you’re her biological mother or not, you’re still the person who’s been calling yourself her mother. And now, when there’s a compatible donor standing right here, you’re refusing to let him help her?”

Grace’s expression hardened.

James didn’t stop.

“Years ago, when you were pregnant and lost the baby, everyone was told that my mother caused it. That she deliberately pushed you, that you lost your child because of her, and that you were left unable to have children afterward.”

Rose’s chest tightened.

She had never known the details.

But hearing James talk about it now, she couldn’t bring herself to believe that her mother had deliberately hurt Victoria.

Something inside her ached.

James continued, his voice low and cutting.

“The Taylor family spent years carrying the blame. They took responsibility for you and your medical care. And when you couldn’t have children, my father even agreed to let you raise Alicia.”

He looked directly at Victoria.

“After all these years, you’re telling us you won’t even let Dad donate blood to save her?”

Victoria’s face went white.

James’s words had struck exactly where they were meant to.

Ryan had been silent until then.

Now he lifted his eyes.

His voice was calm.

Almost too calm.

“There’s only one explanation.”

Everyone looked at him.

Ryan’s dark eyes gave nothing away.

“The child you lost back then never died.”

Silence.

Grace froze.

For a moment, she seemed unable to process what she had just heard.

Then she pushed herself to her feet.

Her breathing became ragged.

She stared at Victoria.

“Is that true?”

James had suspected something was wrong, but hearing Ryan say it so matter-of-factly made his stomach drop.

His expression darkened.

Rose stood completely still.

Her lips pressed together until they trembled.

If Ryan was right, then everything suddenly fit.

Victoria’s supposed miscarriage.

Her claim that Sophia had caused it.

Derick’s complete estrangement from Rose’s mother.

Sophia’s desperate attempts to defend herself.

And the child who was supposedly dead...

If that child had actually survived and been hidden somewhere, then Victoria had used the lie to drive Sophia and Derick apart.

The realization sent a cold shiver through Rose.

It meant her mother might have been destroyed by a lie that had been carefully maintained for years.

And if that was true, then the car accident that had killed Sophia—the accident everyone had believed was suicide—might have been the final consequence of everything Victoria had done.

Rose felt sick.

How could someone carry a secret like that for so many years?

Grace’s eyes immediately filled with tears.

“Sophia...”

She could barely get the name out.

Then she turned on Derick.

Her cane came down hard against his back.

“You actually turned against Sophia over this?”

Derick staggered but didn’t react.

“You didn’t believe your own wife. You believed her instead!”

No one in the family had ever known the full story.

Derick had refused to discuss it for years.

And Sophia had been too proud to defend herself to someone who had already decided she was guilty.

But now, after all this time, the memories came rushing back.

He remembered Sophia standing in front of him that day.

Her eyes had been red from crying, but her expression had been cold.

She had looked straight at him and asked: “I told you Victoria threw herself down the stairs. Do you believe me?”

And what had he said?

He had been furious.

He had thought Sophia’s love for him had made her irrational.

He had thought she was jealous.

He had believed Victoria had lost her child because of Sophia and that Victoria’s despair had driven her to the edge.

“Sophia,” he’d told her back then, “you’re letting your feelings for me cloud your judgment. Victoria lost her baby, and she may never be able to have children again. She’s devastated. How can you still refuse to admit what you’ve done?”

He had thought he was forcing his wife to face reality.

Instead, he’d been driving the final nail into their marriage.

Sophia had looked at him for a long time.

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