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CHAPTER 25
His mother’s expression changed. He couldn’t tell what she thought, but he couldn’t care less.
“Oh, Niko… I’m so very sorry,” she whispered.
Mixed emotion speared in Nikolas. His mother would be happy now… Happy to think she’d saved herself five million euros! Happier to think her precious son had been saved from the hideous fate of having to marry a woman he’d got pregnant and who would be the worst wife for him.
“Celebrate, mother,” Nikolas said.
His tone was harsh and cruel. His eyes lasered into hers, and her face paled.
“Celebrate?”
Calista said the word as if it had no meaning. But of course, it had meaning for her! It meant her precious son was safe. Blin
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