Chapter 209

Even if Alanna had been acting up recently, the most she had done was give him the silent treatment.

He said, "Alanna, you should understand that that baby wasn't supposed to exist in the first place. Even if no one caused your miscarriage on purpose, I wouldn't have let you keep it anyway!"

Alanna stared at Hades intently. He'd told her from the start that the baby should never have come into being. Regardless, that wasn't the ending the baby deserved!

Alanna laughed. What was supposed to be a dazzling smile seemed unusually unsettling amid her tears.

"That's true," she said. "You wouldn't have let me give birth to it. But you and I are the ones who have the right to determine whether or not to keep it, and not your fucking sweetheart!

"Hades, it's true I'm only with you for the money, but I'm not indebted to anyone! Who are you to get me to endure Melanie's ways again and again?

"Do I owe it to her? She's your darling, not mine. If you want to repay her, do it yourself! Why sho