Chapter 103

Lorenzo's POV

Why is she asking for my forgiveness and begging me not to leave her?

I turn around and Celestine lets go of me. Her face is red and her chest is heaving heavily with how hard she's crying. "Please, forgive me."

I grab her upper arm and pull her off the floor despite her resistance. "Why are you asking for my forgiveness?" My brain is having a hard time catching up with everything that has been said in the past ten minutes but I don't remember anything that would make her get on her knees and beg for my forgiveness.

"Because I lost the baby," she says softly. "The baby died because of me."

My heart clenches. "You weren't the cause of your miscarriage. It wasn't your fault."

"But...it happened because I was drinking and didn't take care of myself." Her arms tremble in my hold.

Is that what she has been telling herself all these years? That it was her fault the baby didn't make it? "You didn't know you were pregnant," I say in a low and firm voice so every word in that