Chapter 156


    “What’s up with you?” Elgin asked, “Spit it out, will you? Sniffling and whining… is not a good look!”


    Letitia sniffled, “I’ll tell you, just… not sure where to start.”


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    “Spill whateveres to mind!”


    Mopping up her tears haphazardly, Letitia blurted out, “Elgin, what exactly happened between you and


    Sh?”


    “Why are you bringing this up all of a sudden?”


    “Just answer me.” Letitia locked eyes with him, “It’s important.”


    Elgin, however, looked away, “I’ll handle problems between me and Sh. It’s none of your business.”


    With that, he was about to turn to leave.


    But Letitia grabbed the hem of his shirt, holding on tight, “Il already know everything. The night before


    you picked me up from the AquaCity Psychiatric Institute, you and Sh hooked up at the hotel, didn’t


    you?”


    Elgin sharpened his gaze instantly, “How did you find out?”


    Letitia continued, “That night, you were drugged, alone in your room. Then, out of the blue, Sh


    barges in seeking refuge and you two slept together by ident.


    It was pitch ck in the room and you couldn’t see her face and didn’t know who the other was. Plus,


    when you woke up the next day, she was gone. You started searching high and low for Sh.


    Until one of your guys reports back that they found Sh. That night, Mark had pawned her off to a


    geezer. She’d rather die than submit, so she bolted and by some fluke ended up in your room. Then


    you found Sh and promised to marry her. Because she saved you with her body…”


    At this point, Letitia bit her lower lip, “Elgin, am I right?”


    He countered, “How do you know all this? Did Sh tell you?”


    “Pffft… how would she ever share that with me?”


    “Then how do you know?” Elgin narrowed his eyes slightly, “Letitia, where are you getting your


    information? This is top secret.”


    Only he and Sh were privy to this!


    With tears welling up in her eyes, Letitia said, “Elgin, that night, you even swore you’d take


    responsibility and marry her…”


    A wave of unease swept over Elgin. These details, only Sh herself could know so intimately!


    He gripped Letitia’s shoulders fiercely, “You, you…”


    A dreadful thought shed across his mind. But… Elgin didn’t dare to contemte further!


    Tears streaming unchecked down her face, Letitia covered her face as she confessed, “Elgin, the


    woman that night wasn’t Sh… it was me…”


    Elgin was petrified.


    The living room was filled only with Letitia’s faint sobs.


    “Elgin, from start to finish, Sh never showed up at the hotel. Because the woman given to that


    geezer and stumbled into your room in a panic was me, the woman you promised to marry, was also


    me…”


    lured me out of the psych ward and knocked me out to deliver me to the hotel. The geezer had his eye


    on


    Mark couldn’t bear to shame his daughter, so he picked me as a sacrifice to butter up the geezer.”


    Sh,


    Ege was in shock, staggering back, with his towering frame trembling.


    He couldn’t digest this truth!


    “It was you? No… this can’t be!” Elgin said, “I said I’d marry you, then why did you run away!?”


    “Because it was nothing to be proud of! I didn’t know it was you! I was the woman you left in the psych


    ward as punishment, if you’d found out I lost my innocence, you would have hit the roof!”


    Elgin heaved his chest violently, tightly clenching his fists.


    The truth was too cruel!


    “So, so…” Elgin’s voice was hoarse with difficulty, “The child in your belly…”


    “It’s yours!” Letitia replied in despair, “Elgin, that’s your child, our child!”


    He felt like he’d been punched hard, his back slowly bending, then he lost his bnce and fell to his


    knees with a thud, hands bracing hard on the ground.


    His child…Then, what had he done?


    “I was only touched by you that night. The rest of the time, I was clean and pure!” Letitia said, “I wanted


    that child so much and did everything to protect him, hoping to bring him into this world… but Elgin,


    what did you do! How could you hurt me and him like that!


    I survived a plunge into theke, the child was fine. Sh framed me, and I tumbled down the stairs,


    but the child was also fine. We survived disaster after disaster, but who would have thought… the child


    died by your hand in the end!” Letitia’s scream was heart-wrenching, “Elgin, you killed our child with


    your own hands!”


    All the emotions she had suppressed all day burst forth now!


    Letitia was heartbroken in agony, on the verge of mental copse, unable to bear such a brutal truth.


    Now, she had to get it out, she wanted Elgin to share in the pain!


    Letitia copsed to the floor, her tears already blurring her vision.


    She couldn’t see Elgin clearly, only to see a hazy outline.


    Biting her teeth, she said, “You’re in pain now, aren’t you? Full of regret, wishing you could kill yourself,


    right? Well, let me tell you, Elgin, my pain is no less than yours! You’re the root of all this! You’re the


    executioner! All that favoritism and indulgence you showered on Sh should have been mine! And


    the result? She enjoyed everything that should’ve been mine! Elgin, how much longer and deeper will


    you hurt me?”


    Each of Letitia’s usations was an invisible knife, stabbing deep into Elgin.


    What a torturing pain! Elgin couldn’t ept this truth!


    The bastard he kept harping about, the child he was so set on getting rid of, the obstacle he thought


    stood between him and Letitia turned out to be…his flesh and blood!


    “No, it can’t be, I don’t believe it…” Elgin clenched his teeth, veins throbbing on his temple, “It’s all lies,


    you’re lying!”


    Letitia answered, “Yes! I wish it were all lies! All of this, just my spection!”


    The two looked at each other, eyes filled with despair.


    Elgin punched the ground hard and slowly rose to his feet.


    He looked up, bobbing his Adam’s apple, with a tear slowly trailing down his cheek, mingling with his


    sideburns.


    Men don’t easily shed tears, just… not until their hearts are truly broken!


    Elgin, in his life, had never shed a single tear, but now, for once, he did.


    He snapped his eyes open and barked, “Butler!”


    “Right here. Mr. Ramirez. The butler appeared at the door in a sh.


    ‘Fetch Sh for mel And Mark, plus that old geezer)”


    “Yes, sir.”


    Elgin gritted his teeth and growled, “And make it snappy!”


    “Hah…” Letitia sneered with irony, “You need a face-to-face showdown to swallow this bitter pill, huh?”