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Chapter 298:
Seeing her grandmother approach, Amelia felt her limbs turn to stone. The words Michelle had just spoken still rang in her head, so unreal she wondered if she had misheard them.
Reading the doubt in Amelia’s eyes, Michelle continued, her voice trembling with tangled emotions. “Amelia, Ricky isn’t your father. He p>
“Shut your mouth!” Ricky snapped, his glare sharp enough to wound, refusing to let her finish.
Wyatt’s gaze flicked to the bodyguards, and in a flash, one of them twisted Ricky’s wrist until he was unable to speak another word.
That was when Amelia finally found her voice again. With tears burning in her eyes, she turned to her grandmother. “He isn’t my father p>
The sight of Amelia’s tears stabbed at Michelle’s heart, and she understood all too well the girl’s pain. She had collapsed in anger the day Ricky told her Amelia wasn’t his child, that she had been conceived before Katrina’s marriage.
𝘔𝗼ѕ𝗍 𝗋е𝘢𝘥 𝗍𝗵i𝘀 𝘸e𝘦𝗸 𝘰ո
Though Katrina was gone, Michelle didn’t want Amelia to suffer further harm. Even after Ricky intentionally made her faint because of the revelation, she chose to keep the secret. Her plan had been to carry it to her grave—until Hiram approached her, speaking of something odd about Katrina’s death.
The possibility that her only daughter had been murdered sent rage coursing through her, pushing her to leave the hospital with Hiram at once.
“Ricky Flynn, you monster! What did Katrina ever do to you for you to kill her? You p>
“Katrina was a disgrace! She p>
Michelle’s palm cracked across his face before Ricky could finish, drawing a thin trickle of blood from his mouth. Ricky wiped it away and sneered. “Tell me I’m wrong. She had another man’s child and expected me to marry her p>
He remembered waking in the hotel that night with a thrill in his chest. Katrina’s choice to be with him had seemed like her own, though Laura and the others were convinced he had coerced her. For a brief moment, he believed he had truly won Katrina’s heart—until she revealed the next day that she was already carrying a child.
The revelation left him feeling like a fool. Yet when she suggested marriage, he agreed without hesitation, fully aware she needed him as a shield, because his ambitions outweighed his pride. What gnawed at him most was her refusal to let him so much as touch her.
Just then, a sudden wail of police sirens tore through his thoughts. As the sound grew nearer, his gaze slid toward Amelia, sharp with bitterness. “If I had known this would happen from the start, I would never have kept you alive p>