I shook my head frantically.


    Impossible.


    No matter what, those were Liam’s own flesh and blood too.


    What exactly are you saying?” I whirled around to face Zoey’s smug expression.


    Seeing my face, pale as paper, Zoey looked even more pleased with herself.


    You tell me.”


    You’ve already guessed, haven’t you?”


    That’s right, exactly what you’re thinking.”


    Liam promised me he would never have children with you.”


    So your babies were never meant to survive.”


    he moment my suspicions were confirmed, my heart felt like it was being crushed in someone’s fist. The pain was so intense I could barely breathe.


    Liam truly didn’t want children with me, he had plenty of options.


    stead, he let me get pregnant again and again, suffering the pain of miscarriage each time.


    his man, who took an oath to save lives as a doctor, deliberately harmed the babies in my womb.


    he realization that I’d shared a bed with someone so cruel for three years sent a violent shiver through me. Cold sweat soaked my back.


    Liley, you’re so pathetic. Just like your useless mother,” Zoey said, looking at me with contempt.


    my lost children were my eternal pain, then my mother was the thorn forever embedded in my heart.


    ack then, if Zoey’s mother hadn’t inserted herself into my parents’ marriage, my mom wouldn’t have developed depression and ultimately jumped tc er death.


    ow Zoey was deliberately twisting that thorn deeper.


    nyone else could mention my mother, but Zoey had absolutely no right.


    a that moment, I snapped.


    pped Zoey’s smug face as hard as I could.


    he sound cracked through the air as her head jerked to the side.


    Joey stood there stunned, holding her cheek, staring at me in disbelief.


    After a long moment, she finally found her voice.


    ‘Riley Parker, you actually hit me,”


    ‘Damn right I did,” I replied, my voice cold as ice.


    Meeting my fierce re, Zoey visibly shrank back, angry but too intimidated to say more.


    Then suddenly, Zoeypletely changed her demeanor. Clutching her red, swelling cheek, she let tears stream down her face and asked in a


    wounded voice:


    “Why would you hit me, Riley?”


    Her expression changed so fast it was like watching someone flip a switch.


    “RILEY!”


    A furious voice thundered from behind me.


    Liam.


    I let out a coldugh. Of course.


    Liam rushed to Zoey, examining her cheek like she’d been shot instead of pped, his eyes practically dripping with concern.


    Zoey cranked up the waterworks.


    “Liam, don’t me her. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have upset Riley,” she whimpered.


    ssic Zoey-ying the delicate victim just like her mother taught her. Sobbing prettily, looking so small and wounded.


    Liam’s face hardened. When he looked at me, his eyes were razor des.


    Apologize. Now,” he ordered.


    lis voice hit like i


    pletely foreign to me. Like I was looking at a stranger wearing my husband’s face.


    ells was the real Liam. The sweet, loving husband had been nothing but theater.


    and him, Zoey shot me a look of pure victory, her eyes dancing with triumph while her lips trembled for show.


    If anyone should apologize, it’s Zoey,” I said coldly, staring at the stone-faced man in front of me. <fn685d> Official source is FindN0vel</fn685d>


    Riley, you’re the one who hit her.”


    What’s happened to you? How did you be so cruel? You know Zoey just had surgery. Her body can’t handle any stress right now.”


    iam’s eyes were filled with nothing but disappointment as he looked at me.