Chapter 142

"Speak up! Cedric, you bastard. Do you realize Sophie is still carrying your child?!"

Jeanna's outcry pierced through Cedric's daze. He seized her wrist, his voice strained with disbelief. "Repeat what you just said!"

"What's the point? Sophie never had an abortion, and your child is still in her womb. She was supposed to leave today and find peace somewhere else, awaiting the child's birth. But you've ruined everything!

"Cedric! Just die already!" Jeanna's eyes blazed with rage, her wrist nearly breaking under his grip. Despite his hold, she pushed against him, longing to thrust him into the sea to join Sophie in death.

"She deceived me? Lied to me?" Cedric's face contorted in shock and disbelief. He had assumed the worst, but now the truth seemed elusive.

"No, she didn't lie. What? Did you expect her to sit around while you send someone again to force an abortion on her?"

"I sent someone?" Cedric's focus sharpened on Jeanna. "What do you mean 'I sent someone to force an abortio