“Let me go!” I shouted. “The child in her belly is yours. Even if she loses it, it’s no loss—it’s a cursed child! I will never, ever apologize!”
His eyes turned to ice. Without warning, his hand lashed out across my face.
“If you won’t apologize, then you’ll kneel in the villa until Lynzee is willing to forgive you.”
He shoved me toward the bodyguards behind him, and then he walked away without looking back.
I was pinned in place, my voice raw as I shouted after him.
“Ridley! I will never forgive you!”
He paused for a heartbeat—just long enough for me to think he might turn around.
But in the end, he kept walking, disappearing from sight.
Agnes’s POV
I was escorted back to the villa and forced to kneel for an entire day.
It wasn’t until the next morning that they finally let me go.
Four days remained before the time I had agreed to meet my brother. Still, I already began quietly packing my things.
Over the next two days, Ridley didn’t come home. He didn’t send a single message either.
But Lynzee? She was suddenly everywhere on my phone.