CHAPTER 221

ADAM’S POV

The evening light filters through the curtains of my study room, casting long shadows across the walls. The air is thick with tension, and the silence is broken only by the occasional rustle of papers on my desk. I am lost in thought, contemplating the day's events, when my mother bursts in, her face a mask of desperation and frustration.

Her sudden presence is jarring. She stands before me, her eyes pleading, and I know immediately what she wants. She has come to beg me to bring Aria back. The irony is not lost on me. This is the same woman who never liked Aria, who dismissed her because she came from nothing. And now, after our divorce, she wants her back, all because she discovered that Aria is the daughter of Dave Wilson, the richest man in the country.

“What have you thought about the matter we discussed last time?”

“I told you before, I don’t want Aria back!”

“This isn’t what you said weeks back. Now you don’t want her?”

It feels like a betrayal. My own mother, my blo