All Chapters of He Never Wanted Our Children, So I Chose to Forget Him: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Not long afterward, as they left the hospital after another prenatal appointment, several children in ragged clothes rushed toward them and clung to Cindy's legs."Miss! Miss! Where's the money you promised us? Why did you break your word?"Simon recognized them. They seemed to be among the children who gathered around Yara when she delivered food to the slums.Cindy's face turned white. She shoved them away and shrieked, "Who are you? I don't know you! Simon, get rid of them! They're trying to hurt our baby!"Before Simon could speak, several bodyguards stepped forward and roughly drove the children away.Simon remained rooted to the spot. As the guards dragged the children off, he thought he heard them shouting, "You broke your promise! Liar!"That night, Simon waited until Cindy fell asleep, then went to his study. After a moment's hesitation, he told his assistant, "Find out who those children outside the hospital were."He barely finished speaking when the study door flew open

Yara slowly opened her eyes, her gaze unfocused.She looked around. Everything was white, and she was no longer in the laboratory.She remembered coming to have her memories erased, but she had no idea what was erased.She also remembered how hard her life used to be. She just couldn't remember who made it so hard.A calm male voice spoke nearby. Lyndon stood beside her with his hands behind his back."You're awake. How do you feel?"She blinked. Her mind felt empty.It was like waking from an exhausting dream without remembering any of it.She tried to think back, but pain began to throb through her head."I..." She rubbed her temples. "I feel strange. So many of my memories are gone.""You just had the procedure. Don't force yourself to remember," Lyndon said gently.Yara paused, then nodded."You came here to settle your inheritance from your mother, Celia Yates," Lyndon explained as he watched her reaction. "You also chose to erase some painful memories.""Painful memories?" Ya

Simon stared at the thin, sickly children, his expression frightening.A few of the braver ones ran over and knocked on his car window."It's you! It really is you!"The children cried as they stumbled over their confessions."We saw all those people yelling at Miss Yara and hitting her in the hospital!""We're sorry! We shouldn't have listened to that awful woman!""She promised us money to pay for our families' medical bills if we lied and said Miss Yara poisoned everyone...""Can you take us to apologize to her?"Simon sat frozen as he listened. Their words hit him like a blow.It was all a lie! Cindy staged the whole thing!At the hospital, his assistants and bodyguards huddled in a corner of the corridor, trembling as they exchanged frightened looks."We're finished. We're really finished this time!""Didn't Mr. Quinn always turn a blind eye to what Miss Hughes did and blame us instead?""This time might be different. Mrs. Quinn suffered so much. I think he's finally taken her si

Yara's words hit Simon so hard that his ears rang and his vision blurred."No, Yara. Let me explain..."He tried to move closer. His voice shook with a desperation she had never heard from him before.Lyndon stepped between them, his voice cold."Mr. Quinn, control yourself. You are no longer welcome here.""Get out of my way!" Simon glared at Lyndon and shouted without thinking. "Yara and I have nearly twenty years of history. Who are you? You just took advantage of her when she was vulnerable—"Slap!Yara struck Simon across the face, cutting him off.The ballroom fell silent.Everyone stared at her in shock.She lowered her hand. Anger made her chest rise and fall, but her gaze stayed cold."Don't talk about him that way!" Yara said firmly. "Lyndon Gray is my fiancé. We have every right to be together."And a lunatic like you brought a fake marriage certificate to someone else's engagement party. What gives you the right to stand here and make accusations?"Simon held a hand to

After the guards threw Simon out of the engagement party, he returned to his temporary lodgings in a daze.He sat in the cold room, unable to stop seeing Yara step in front of Lyndon to defend him.He felt the slap she dealt him without hesitation for another man.The memories cut into him like knives, their pain late but no less sharp."No. She wasn't just trying to hurt me..." he muttered, his eyes trembling. "The way she looked at me really changed..."Yara knew everything, and she lost all faith in him.That realization broke him more completely than any revenge could.He coughed up blood.It splattered across the floor.Simon pushed away the person who tried to help him and struggled for breath. He couldn't accept it!They shared nearly twenty years of history and so many memories of facing hardship together.How could someone who came along later replace all that so easily?But the moment he thought of everything they faced together, pain seized his chest.He was the one who be