All Chapters of Craving His Father’s Wife: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

LOTTIE My mother arrived later that afternoon. I was lying on my side when she entered the room, my face swollen from crying and my body exhausted. Viktor sat in the chair beside my bed, holding my hand between both of his. The moment Mamma saw me, she hurried toward the bed. “Oh, my baby.” She gushed. She beside me and reached for my shoulder, drawing me carefully into her arms. I stiffened for a moment before allowing myself to lean against her. If Felicia saw us now she’d have burst out laughing in my face and called me pathetic. But I didn’t have the strength to keep anyone at a distance today. “Mamma,” I whispered. “Yea?” She stroked my hair, pressing a kiss to my forehead. Her own eyes were wet, though she tried to hide it by lowering her face toward mine. “What happened?” she asked. I couldn’t answer. Viktor did it for me. “She lost the pregnancy.” Mamma went still. Her hand stopped moving against my hair, and she lifted her head to look at him. “She

VIKTOR“Lottie, wait!”She continued down the stairs without looking back, and when I tried to follow her, she spun around so sharply that I nearly walked into her.“I told you not to follow me, Viktor, and I expect you to respect that one last request because I have spent enough time in my life begging people to treat me like I matter.”“I’m not asking you to beg me for anything, and I’m not going to stand here pretending that what you saw was acceptable because it wasn’t.”“Then what do you want from me?” Her voice trembled as she stared at me. “Do you want me to scream at you, slap you, or tell you how much you have hurt me so you can finally understand what you have done?”“Lottie, I know I hurt you.”“No, you don’t!” she snapped, taking another step away from me. “You have absolutely no idea what it feels like to spend an entire day trying to accept that you have lost your baby, only to walk into a room and discover that the man who held you while you cried was busy kissing your

VIKTORI barely slept that night, and when morning came, I was already dressed and waiting for my driver to bring the car around.Lottie’s message remained unanswered, and I knew better than to show up at her door after she had told me she wanted nothing more to do with me.I had a meeting at the office, and avoiding her there would be impossible.When I arrived, my secretary informed me that Lottie had called in sick, and I stood beside her desk for a moment before asking if she had said anything else.“No, sir, she only asked me to inform you that she wouldn’t be coming in today.”“Did she say when she’d return?”“She said she’d let us know.”I nodded and walked into my office, shutting the door behind me.I spent the next few days burying myself in work, taking meetings I could have left to my executives and reviewing reports that had already been approved, because sitting in my office with nothing to do meant reaching for my phone every few minutes to check whether Lottie had fina

LOTTIEI stepped out of the corner, my heart beating fast as I barked, “What the hell is going on here?”The three of them turned toward me, and Mamma’s face changed the moment she saw me standing at the entrance. Papa, on the other hand, showed no sign of surprise as he slipped his phone into his pocket, while Felicia rose from the couch and folded her arms across her chest.“What are you doing here?” Mamma asked.I stared at her, unable to believe she was the same woman who had cried in my arms and claimed Papa had hurt her, the same woman I had welcomed into the Morozov mansion because I thought she needed my protection.“I should be asking you that question, Mamma. You told me Papa hurt you, and I believed you. You told me you had nowhere else to go, and I opened my doors to you. Meanwhile, you have been sitting here with him, planning God knows what behind my back. What is going on?”“Lower your voice,” Papa ordered.“No! You don’t get to tell me what to do after everything you h

VIKTOR“Lottie, open the door.”I knocked again, and this time the door opened. She rushed into my arms, bursting into tears as I caught her.“Viktor!”“I’m here.” I held her against my chest, rubbing her back. “What’s happened?”“They know, Viktor. Mamma knows where Nevaeh is. She has been lying to me all along.”I pulled back to look at her face. Her cheeks were wet, and she was struggling to speak.“Tell me what happened.”“Papa showed them a video of Nevaeh. Felicia was hitting her because she kept crying for her Mom and Dad. Mamma knew about it, Viktor. She knew where my daughter was, and she watched them hurt her.”“Where is Nevaeh now?”“I don’t know. Papa won’t tell me. He said I would only see her if I did what he wanted.”I cupped her face. “Did he touch you?”She shook her head, then covered her mouth as another sob escaped.“And my baby…” she whispered. “He asked me what I thought happened to my baby, and Mamma smiled. She was the one who did it, Viktor. She put something