Chapter 140 – The Gift

(Anj’s POV)

My hand flew to my mouth.

“Eve came to me that night, crying and asking for help. I was so heartbroken and angry. My poor Eve… my beloved Eve. My friend. I encouraged her to sue Leonard, and I’d do everything in my power to help her, but your mother said no one would believe her. She said, ‘Who would believe a daughter of a servant?’”

Feeling like fainting, I leaned to Sky’s shoulder. My body went cold, my heart stopped beating, and my eyes welled with tears, rolling down my cheeks without warning. I heard someone sobbing, only to realize the sound was coming from me.

“Dad, enough,” Sky said as he wrapped his arms around me. “Enough…”

I didn’t think he was pretending to be mad at his father because I could feel his muscles trembling, and like me, he was heartbroken, hearing the story for the first time.

His dad has no plan of stopping. He wiped his tears and continued. “Eve got pregnant.”

When I heard it, my eyes gaped at him, not believing I was a product of a sexual assa