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At this point, it’s all because Eve forced me to do it! If she didn’t keep on protecting the child inside Elsie, I wouldn’t need to do this!

While clenching her fists tightly, Lyla glanced at the door of the ward one last time and furrowed her brows before leaving the place.

However, the two of them didn’t know that a dark figure was standing at the emergency exit as he listened to everything they said just now.

At the moment, his face looked terrifyingly dark. Even though it was a rather warm autumn, the coldness of his face felt as though it could freeze someone completely.

No one knew how much time had passed but it had been quiet outside for a long while. Finally, his eyebrows twitched slightly and he lifted his gaze, revealing the coldness within.

“I know that if my position in the family is under threat, I won’t mind telling him how Myra was framed back then.”

“Or are you still lying to yourself? Do you really think I don’t know what you did to me and Sean’s child at that time
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