CEO's Forbidden Love
She turned her head to him, eyes softer than they were when she entered the hospital.
“I don’t expect that. I don’t. But I need you to know, I didn’t abandon you or your sister. That word haunts me. Please, just let me speak.”
He took a breath, glanced sideways at her, then nodded. “We’re already here. Say it all. Let’s just finish this, is exhausting”
She blinked slowly, gathering her words. And then, with the kind of calm that only comes from years of pain, she began.
“Your father… Peter… he grew up in a children's home. He was smart, too smart for his environment, more like a genius. He read everything he could find. One day, Jacob came across him through a scholarship program and picked