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Chapter 3

Auteur: Yara
Lucas rubbed his furrowed brow. He didn't lose his temper again in front of everyone.

Instead, he sent his furious mother home with the driver and told the housekeeper to look after Isabella.

All afternoon, I could hear Lucas in the guest room, murmuring to Isabella and comforting her.

I went back to the master bedroom alone.

Rain began to fall. I stared at the window as bitterness rose inside me again.

Lucas didn't come into the bedroom until 11 that night.

Looking exhausted, he tugged his tie loose, switched on the bedside lamp, and came over to me.

Lucas took both my hands and buried his face in my palms.

"Freya, I know you're hurting," he said hoarsely.

I looked down at him and asked quietly, "Do you?"

Lucas looked up, his eyes bloodshot. "I know.

"I understand why you're angry about another woman carrying my child under our roof.

"I spoke to you that way downstairs to protect you. If I hadn't come down hard on you, Mom would never have let it go."

I pulled my hands away.

"So protecting me means I have to let your mother humiliate me and wait on the woman carrying your baby?"

Lucas frowned, stood, went to the window, and lit a cigarette. "Freya, can you stop being so stubborn?"

He blew out a cloud of smoke. "In my family, not having children is the one unforgivable sin.

"Dad's given me an ultimatum. If there's still no heir by the end of this year, the board will be reshuffled!

"I'm doing all this for you. Can you please stop dragging me down?"

He stubbed out his cigarette, strode over, and pulled me tight against him.

"I'm begging you, Freya. Hang in there. It's only a few more months."

He murmured in my ear, "Once the baby is born, I'll send Isabella abroad. She'll never come back.

"Then we'll tell everyone you gave birth, and we can go back to being as in love as we were when we first got married. Wouldn't that be nice?"

I laughed against his shoulder, pushed him away, and pointed toward the guest room.

"Go back to how we were? Lucas, the woman in that room is carrying your child.

"You kissed her pregnant belly and called yourselves the baby's mommy and daddy.

"How can you expect me to go back to the way things were?"

Lucas's expression changed as he struggled to hold back his temper. "I already explained. I was bonding with the baby!"

I stared at him. "Spare me... You betrayed me. That's all there is to it!"

Lucas took a deep breath and rubbed his temples.

"Freya, don't push me. I don't want to fight with you. Let's not make this any uglier than it has to be."

Worn out, he dropped onto the bed and was soon fast asleep.

In the faint, rain-gray light from the window, I calmly took off my wedding ring and set it on the nightstand.

Then I pulled my passport and documents from the back of the safe and quietly slipped them into my bag.
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