Celeste felt stiff as Damon trapped her between his arms. Though they weren't physically touching, he was so close to her that it was as if Celeste could feel the heat on his skin. Their breaths intertwined."Our child is just as I imagined. He has the exact same fox eyes as you. His personality is reserved and intelligent. Do you know what Liam said? Liam said that an old soul is residing in Leo's three-year-old body."Damon felt a numbing sensation spreading in his chest again, but he forced it down. He reached out to brush Celeste's stray hair away from her forehead. "But it would have been even better if he were a daughter. She would have inherited all of your beauty."Celeste had thought that time was the best medicine for the heart. She had thought that after more than four years had passed, she wouldn't have any more emotional upheavals when she faced Damon again.Even if there were, she could have faked it.However, being pressed against the door by him made her heart race
Damon had kept his phone number the same for all these years.He woke up with a hangover and was dizzy. When he saw an unfamiliar phone call, he picked it up on speakerphone. "Hello?"As Damon heard Celeste's voice on the other end, he suddenly sobered up.They agreed to meet at a cafe. Damon arrived first, and while waiting for Celeste, he ran through hundreds, if not thousands, of possible scenarios in his mind."Sorry about that. There was a bit of traffic." Celeste arrived ten minutes later. She wasn't late but still politely apologized. It was as if the person who had despised Damon the day before was someone else.Celeste wore no makeup, and her long hair was casually pinned back with a clip. She wore a black sundress with a neutral plaid shirt on top, slung a white canvas bag over her shoulder, and had on a pair of white half-canvas shoes.Her captivating features, coupled with her distant demeanor and the contrast of the oversized shirt against her well-proportioned figur
Celeste spoke from the heart. She had a little taste of destiny in recent years. Damon was a crucial part of her destiny, someone who had changed the course of her life and presented her with lessons she needed to learn.When she no longer felt any pain at the thought of Damon, she could consider that chapter of her life closed."How could I not know you? When have you cared about bridging the class gap? For someone as humble as you, you wouldn't even give a second glance if someone else got down on one knee and offered you money and fame." Damon chuckled bitterly.He remembered Celeste's humbleness quite well."Regardless, having money is indeed better than not having any. Besides, look at me. Even if I remarried, haven't I found someone wealthy?" Celeste smiled as well. She smiled more than usual that day.The mention of her remarriage made Damon's heart ached to the point of numbness."Is he good to you?""With my temperament, how could we have lasted four years if Sebastian
It took Damon a long time to calm down after he returned home.He called Fiona to ask for Lester's cord blood. Fiona hesitated for a moment and asked, "What do you need it for?"Damon couldn't say it was for a bone marrow match for Leo. He replied, "As his father. I have the right to have it." His tone was as assertive as ever with Fiona without seeming out of place."I didn't save it for Lestie," Fiona quickly responded."Don't you know the importance of cord blood as a doctor?" Damon wasn't convinced.Fiona stammered and couldn't come up with a convincing explanation. Damon impatiently ended the call.Storing cord blood for a child wasn't expensive. Considering Fiona's financial status and her profession as a doctor, Damon couldn't believe she hadn't stored Lester's cord blood.Either she didn't want to give it to Damon at all, or there was something fishy going on with Lester's cord blood.Something didn't sit right with Damon.He decided to visit the hospital and check the
Although Fiona did not get her wish to marry Damon, she ultimately achieved her goal. By leveraging the influence of the Bishop family, she benefited greatly from her ex-husband over the years, much to Harry's dismay.Despite the fact that the two children she had with Harry were born via surrogacy, Lester was indeed Fiona's biological child, conceived naturally but with a donor unrelated to Damon.She thought that Damon, being a highly intelligent and suspicious person, would easily detect any deception if even her pregnancy were faked.Damon never suspected the truth, primarily because he retained manipulated memories!Fiona had administered a drug to Damon that induced sexual hallucinations. Everything was a lie!Her decision to no longer practice medicine was directly related to this incident. During the process of "saving" Damon, freezing his emotions and using hallucinogenic drugs to induce false sensations of love could have disastrously exposed her, potentially ruining h
Fiona, with her stunning looks and immense wealth, was the envy of many in her homeland. However, her arrival in the remote Aureastia region spelled disaster.Fiona had a significant amount of cryptocurrency named “Ucoin,” which was the latest trend in the crypto world and rumored to be highly profitable.She was wealthy and could speculate with about 1 billion dollars in this currency. However, once word got out in Aureastia, she became a prime target for local gangs.She was targeted, and even her male companion was not spared.Initially, Jaxon only intended to coax Fiona into spending lavishly for his commissions. However, he ended up risking his life alongside her.Fiona was tortured to death. To extract the password for her “Ucoin” account, the criminals killed the young man in front of her and chopped off her fingers one by one.Even after she gave the password and her account details at Vanguard Bank, she couldn’t escape from being raped and killed.Her death was horrific
"What do you mean using cord blood for matching is no longer possible?" Celeste was puzzled. The Bishop family was wealthy, and Fiona was a doctor. How could they not have preserved the child's cord blood?Damon felt a bitter sadness rising within him. "I came here today to discuss just that. Lester isn’t my son. We were both deceived by Fiona."Damon and Celeste spent the entire afternoon together as he shared the intricate details he had uncovered, including the paternity test results and even records of Fiona purchasing illegal drugs."It was all Fiona’s trap," Damon said with a bitter smile.What could be more humiliating than admitting to the woman he loved that he had been fooled?Of course, Damon wasn’t foolish. However, all of this did happen by coincidence.It was all so coincidence that not only he but also Celeste and everyone else attributed his emotional detachment to the car accident. And during his most vulnerable moment, Fiona had drugged him, leading him to bel
Celeste used to find it hard to reject Damon, but now it was much easier. She was married and quite happily so. As a married woman, it was perfectly fine for her to refuse anyone."Is he good to you?" Damon asked. He wasn't ready to give up."You've already asked me that before. He treats me very well." Celeste was telling the truth. Sebastian was flawless as a partner.Damon grimaced. Right. He'd already asked that."Do you love him?" He finally mustered the courage to ask the question that had been weighing on his mind.Celeste wanted to say that it didn't matter but thought it better to let him move on.She nodded and fixed her gaze directly on Damon's eyes. "Listen, Damon, I'm only going to say this once. Imagine you're at your lowest point, and a genuinely kind man comes into your life. He doesn't care about your past or that you're pregnant with another man's child. He helps you through the darkest days, helps you overcome your depression, and loves your child as his own. W