Chapter 9

"No, it's not like that. Listen to me. Back then, when I was on the brink of death, Fallon saved me. I owed her a favor. I just wanted to repay her with a child. I thought the child would be yours, and he could take care of both of you in the future..."

"Enough, Ivor! Do you even believe the bullshit you're spewing?"

"Do you take me for a fool?"

"You owed her a favor and thought a child would be compensation? Was sleeping with her necessary too?"

I played the video I'd recorded in the office that day.

The intimate, entangled sounds of the two of them came through crystal clear.

Ivor's face gradually turned pale, his expression crumbling bit by bit.

He covered his face and broke down in tears.

"I'm sorry, Vivienne. I..."

I smiled, but tears fell down my face.

"Sorry? What good is your apology? Can it undo the suffering I've been through or change the fact that you cheated?"