Chapter 733


    Jeffrey had prepared an outpouring of confessions, heartfelt truths, but at that moment, Karen had


    cornered him into silence, leaving him with just one line.


    "So what now?"


    Karen didn''t want to drag all those issues out into the open, but he kept pressing, leaving her no


    choice.


    "As long as we don''t break up, I''ll agree to anything you say, okay?"


    "But all I want is to break up with you, cleanly andpletely." Karen didn''t look at him, her back


    turned to Jeffrey.


    "Karen, ever since I''ve been with you, I stopped going out, and I haven''t been involved with anyone


    else. Paige was just... someone I didn''t know about! If I had known, I would''ve never let that child be


    born."


    Karen scoffed.


    "What''s the use in saying that now? The child is already here. She''s your daughter!"


    "I can deny her. I can give Paige a sum of money, and have her take the child and leave, okay?"


    Jeffrey raised his hand in an oath. "I, Jeffrey, swear on everything that I will never see them again!


    From now on, you are the only one in my eyes and in my heart."


    Once, such words might have touched Karen, but now they left her unmoved.


    "This is so pointless, Jeffrey." She frowned, steadying her emotions before looking him in the eyes,


    "By doing this, I end up being the viin! I''m the one keeping you from seeing your child, the one


    breaking up a father and his daughter. Have you thought about that? Your daughter will grow up!


    Then what? How is she going to see me?"


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    "I... I just won''t let her know who her father is!"


    "Stop joking. Secrets have a way ofing out." Karen had no desire to y the viin.


    She might not have experienced a life without parents, but empathy was enough to understand the


    hardships of such a life.


    The harder the life, the deeper the resentment, and that could lead to troubleter on.


    Karen didn''t want any part of that.


    "So tell me, what do you want to do? I''ll listen to you! I could even take the child from Paige and


    have my parents raise her, so she wouldn''t resent you! Or maybe... maybe... she actually..." has a


    serious congenital heart condition.


    But Jeffrey couldn''t bring himself to finish the thought.


    He couldn''t wish death upon his daughter, not when he had just learned of her existence.


    "Jeffrey, I''ve said it before, I won''t be a stepmother." Karen''s stance was firm, "And my parents


    wouldn''t agree either. I''ll admit, that day outside the hospital, I was willing to give us a chance to get


    back together, but that was before I knew about your daughter! These past few days, I''ve thought a


    lot, and I even considered epting the reality, but in the end, I couldn''t convince myself."


    Karen took love seriously.


    Even if it wasn''t about ''till death do us part,'' at the very least, she didn''t want a third party always in


    the picture!


    Paige would always be a special existence.


    And as their daughter grew older, that special existence would be even more pronounced.


    What would she do then?


    Like before, if the child needed her father because of a serious illness, could she really keep


    stopping him from going?


    Karen couldn''t be that heartless, but it would make her feel ufortable.


    Call her selfish, say sheckedpassion, but she just wasn''t willing.


    "Please go. Let''s pretend we never met."


    Karen turned to leave.


    Suddenly, Jeffrey grabbed her sleeve, his eyes reddening as he looked at her and asked, "What


    about our child then?"