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
"My life will be meaningless without her," Damon murmured painfully, his eyes swollen."Your life will still be meaningless if you continue like this. How will Celeste react if she knows that the man she once loved is now in such a pathetic state?""I..." He was hesitant to respond."Are you hoping for her to feel lucky that she left you?" Jasper, who rarely showed such dominance, became enraged. His veins seemed to pop out on his face."I'm only advising you this time. You can choose whether you want to listen to me. If you don't take my advice, I won't come to you again!"After saying that, Jasper let go of Damon's collar and walked away. Before leaving, he irritably kicked the villa's front door with force, making a piercing sound as it swung.Damon stared at the door and Jasper's leaving figure, feeling somewhat dazed."He means well, Damon. If you continue like this, the Bishops will be doomed! Do you know how many people are waiting to see you fall?" Nicholas helped Damon
"Is that Sebastian?" Afraid of making mistakes, Damon asked Liam beside him.Liam, who had been gossiping about his boss' scandal for a long time, immediately recognized Sebastian. "Yes, he is."They hadn't expected Sebastian to be flirting with another woman behind Celeste's back.Was that what Celeste meant by he treated her well?Damon's expression darkened. Amidst the colorful lights of the club, he seemed unusually cold."Mr. Bishop, I think it's better not to intervene in this matter."Liam had spent several years by Damon's side. He had a keen sense of judgment and knew when to speak up. His preemptive interference surprised Damon."Are you worried about me?" Damon glanced at him."I just think it's Ms. York's family issues. It's best not to interfere too much." Liam didn't want to see Damon's desolate and painful side anymore."Don't interfere? How can I watch Celeste be kept in the dark?" Damon sneered and stood up.Damon followed Sebastian and his partner as they mo
“Cece, your ex-husband bullied me!" Sebastian complained pitifully to Celeste with a bruised eye.Celeste was shocked. "Why did Damon cause trouble again?"They had agreed to part ways amicably. Why was he still entangling her? He even went to bother Sebastian. He lacked proper etiquette."I was dating my crush at the club. Damon happened to see us..." Sebastian recounted the whole incident to Celeste, complaining non-stop.He grumbled discontentedly, "I can't tell him that we're in a sham marriage. If he finds out, he might continue to harass you!"Celeste massaged her temples helplessly. "It doesn't matter if you tell him, but... Sebby, you're tall and younger than him. Why didn't you hit back? Why did you let him bully you?"He was slightly younger than her. She always called him Sebby. He liked that nickname."After all, I'm the 'cheater'. I'm in the wrong. If I had hit him, wouldn't you feel sorry for him?" Sebastian rolled his eyes."He's only my ex-husband. Why should I