Finnian admitted that he didn't want her to be with another man, along with a string of other excuses. Amara felt a wave of bitterness rise in her chest, mixed with a sense of irony that almost made her laugh.
She didn't reply to his messages. Instead, she deleted them all with a single swipe, closed her phone, and went to sleep.
In the middle of the night, a coughing fit woke her abruptly. She went downstairs to get a glass of water, and while she was at it, checked the news from the previous day. That’s when she saw a new wave of online attacks directed at her.
“Amara really doesn’t deserve to be with Keith. Keith has always been squeaky clean—he’s never even had a girlfriend—while Amara is the kind of woman who gets pregnant before marriage. She has no self-restraint.”
“If Keith wants to be with Amara, that’s his business, but it’s obvious she’s shameless and lacks morals. What kind of decent woman gets pregnant out of wedlock and doesn’t even know who the father is? Maybe her personal life was so chaotic she can’t even identify the father.”
“Calling out Amarise—real name Amara! Doesn’t even know who her child’s father is. You really can’t judge someone by appearances. How could Keith fall for her? I’m unfollowing him.”
The online conversation had shifted into a coordinated attack on Amara for being an unwed mother, the posts so uniform they were clearly being manipulated.
Amara’s eyes darkened. Someone was definitely stirring things up. Was it Emma’s doing?
It might have been Emma, or Liliana, or even Edith. After all, Emma and Edith had already met—it was entirely possible they were working together to bring her down.
Even though she had a good idea of who was behind it all, Amara still didn’t know how to fight back.
As long as the identity of her child’s father remained unknown, she could never escape the stigma of being an unwed mother whose child’s paternity was a mystery.

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