Chapter 395
Irene simply thought it hilarious. “Yvaine died because of Mick’s selfishness. Yes, he saved her at first, but he also killed her, didn’t he? He wanted that inhibitor chip planted because he wanted her to forget the past, and if it was never implanted, it would never have caused her coma. Are you saying that he’s not a murderer for that? Don’t you think that Isaac should get revenge as Yvaine’s son?”
“Mick genuinely loved Yvaine,” Stephen replied.
He did not shy from asking Irene to sacrifice herself because he wanted to save Mick. After being friends. for years with the man, he knew how Mick felt toward Yvaine.
“Sure he is, but does Yvaine really love him back? If she did, why would she have married Andrew Jefferson? Moreover, did he have Yvaine’s permission to implant that chip?”
Irene was convinced that Mick was selfish-he had stolen Yvaine’s memories, and used love to disguise his crime of stealing another man’s wife and a boy’s mother.
“I won’t agree to this-no way. I won’t allow this to drive a wedge between my husband and myself, and you keep saying that Mick loves Yvaine, but that’s coercion more than anything.”
“It’s love,” Stephen insisted.
“I won’t agree to this.” Irene was resolute.
“Can’t you do me this favor, seeing that I defended you before?”
“No. I’m grateful that you were on my side against Whitney Cox, and I’ll always remember that. However, this isn’t something I can help with-Isaac has a right to know the truth, and none of us can take that away from him.”
Stephen understood that he had no choice then. “Alright.”
Heaving a deep sigh, he stepped outside and called Mick.
When Mick entered, Stephen said, “I’ve done all I could.”
It was obvious what Stephen meant, and Mick was left staring at him with beady eyes. “Would she have lived, if I’d agreed to the surgery sooner…?”
Stephen hung his head but said nothing-that was exactly the case.
Yvaine’s headache had happened for a while, but it was Mick’s inability to find the resolve to remove the inhibitor chip that led to this tragedy.
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