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    “Sadie! What catastrophe befell you? Is your condition stable? What in God’s name has transpired here?”


    His grandfather’s repeated admonitions to safeguard Sadie’s well-being echoed usingly in his consciousness. And now, following merely a brief professional excursion, shenguished in a hospital bed? Should his grandfather discover this development, consequences of unimaginable severity would surely follow.


    Sadie directed a meaningful nce toward Tina, who maintained a respectful silence nearby, andmunicated her wishes through the subtlest inclination of her chin—a silentmand for privacy.


    Tina interpreted the unspoken instruction instantaneously. She retreated from the room with tactical discretion, easing the door shut with deliberate care, sealing the pair inplete istion.


    Sadie elevated her trembling fingers and rested them delicately across her still-t abdomen. “I’m carrying a child.”


    Her deration struck ine with the devastating force of an unexpected lightning strike from cloudless skies. The impact rivaled what he might experience upon hearing that the entire Wall Group empire had copsed into ruins within a single night.


    Astonishment transformed his features—eyes widening to their limits while his jaw worked mechanically without producing coherent sound, rendering him momentarily speechless.


    He inclined his upper body toward her with tentative movements, his typically confident voice now fragile with disbelief. “This must be some borate jest, surely? Could Noah have somehow defied mortality itself and… and fathered this child?”


    The absurdity of his own suggestion registered even as the final sybles escaped his lips. He inwardly chastised himself—the deceased remained permanently beyond reach, an immutablew of existence that permitted no exceptions.


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    His mind whirled chaotically through possibilities until abruptly seizing upon another potential candidate with startling rity. “One moment… might Nathan bear responsibility for this unexpected development?”


    Merely days before, during his business dealings in Jazmah, whispers had reached his ears regarding Sadie’s alleged engagement to Nathan—that notorious libertine scion of the powerful Higgins family, ruling Beversea’s elite circles.


    The shocking revtion had almost caused the tumbler to slip from his grasp when the information first assaulted his consciousness.


    And now this deration of pregnancy emerged from Sadie’s own lips? Whatbyrinthine scheme had unfolded here?


    Sadie expelled a weary breathden with unspokenplexities, her expression reflecting surrender to circumstances beyond her control as she confronted his obvious skepticism. “Nathan bears no connection to this situation.”


    Her denial etched profound furrows across ine’s brow as concentration transformed his features. His analytical mind methodically cataloged and evaluated every conceivable candidate until a singr identity crystallized with inexorable certainty.


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