Chapter 1069


    Lysander''s icy gaze zed with a crimson fury, his cheeks twitching slightly as he struggled to contain


    his anger. The woman before him had repeatedly provoked him and tested his patience to the brink of


    madness.


    He could end it all with the truth and put an end to the torment.


    Yet, as he watched her defiant agony, his heart ached even more than hers.


    "Bruce locked you up in that room, didn''t he? Did he hand you over to Callum? How much did Callum


    pay him? What exactly happened between you two in that room?" Lysander''s voice was strained. His


    temples throbbed with suppressed rage as he gave her onest chance toe clean.


    Thssa''s heart clenched in disbelief, "Is that what you think of me? That I could be sold and bought,


    that I’d casually sleep with another man? So, how low am I to you."


    Her voice wasced with self-mockery. Although her chin and heart were all aching with a suffocating


    pain, she managed a bitter smile.


    "If that''s not the case, then what are you hiding?" Lysander ground his teeth, pressing her for an


    answer.


    "I told you. It was to protect Bruce, my father." Thssa clung to her reason.


    Bruce had threatened her before he left. If she exposed him, he would release the video of him


    harming her mother. If she turned on Bruce, her mother''s dignity would be at risk, and she might not


    survive the scandal.


    She couldn''t take that risk.


    Lysander''s hawk-like eyes bore into her, his facial muscles taut with anger. Seeing Thssa''s resigned


    defiance, his disappointment amplified.


    His next words were like a spear to her heart.


    "Is it Callum’s child?" Lysander barely managed to get the words out, his breathing ragged with fury


    and disbelief.


    The barrage of questions he had fired at her was meant to afford her the chance to refute his


    suspicions.


    But her reactions seemed to confirm them one by one!


    That night, she had lied about going to see her mother, but she was actually meeting Callum. Then she


    returned and popped three emergency contraception pills. But they didn’t work, and that child had been


    conceived that very night.


    Otherwise, why would she, the victim of an abduction, go out of her way to cover for her captor, to


    protect her rendezvous with Callum?


    And then, she fled with Callum and the four kids in tow...


    Wasn''t it all because Callum was the father of the child she was carrying?


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    Hearing Lysander''s usation, Thssa''s pupils constricted sharply.


    She stared at his handsome face, now tight with tension. His eyes were terrifying. Suddenly, he


    seemed like a stranger to her, as if she had never truly known him, as though they were just passersby


    in each other''s lives.


    The more she looked, the more she felt a bitterughter rising within her. Indeed, she had never


    prated his veneer, so how could she im to truly know him?


    He actually suspected that the child she was carrying was Callum''s!


    By thinking so, he believed she had been intimate with Callum!


    So in his eyes, she truly a cheap and easy woman.


    "What else do you want me to say when you won''t believe the truth?" Thssa''s voice was calm,


    resonating with the profound realization that there was nothing more painful than a heart that had given


    up hope.