The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He (Lily and John) novel Chapter 596

The Broken Hearted She and the toy He

Chapter 596 Shattered Happiness

With Marilyn’s character, what kind of child could she possibly raise?

Victor loathed her from the depths of his heart.

He didn’t want this child.

But that night, he had lost control and touched Marilyn.

No matter how one looked at it, the blame was his alone.

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His upright morals and sense of responsibility, deeply ingrained in his bones, kept him from forcing Marilyn into an abortion.

“Victor, our baby will want a complete family.”

Marilyn gently stroked her still–flat belly. “If I have a child before marriage, people will gossip. I don’t want our baby to be called illegitimate. Victor, let’s go get our marriage license tomorrow, okay?”

Victor closed his eyes in agony.

When he opened them again, bloodshot and hollow, he looked like a man stripped of all will to live.

His voice was soaked in pain and desolation, as though the glittering world could no longer reach him, as though his heart had already withered and died.

“Marilyn, tomorrow morning I have urgent business abroad. When I come back, I’ll marry you, even give you a wedding. But I don’t love you, and I can’t bear physical contact with you. Even if we marry, I will never live with you. Knowing that, do you still want to marry me?”

Marilyn tilted her chin ever so slightly.

She didn’t believe for a moment that he could resist her once they were married.

Marriage would bind them under the law.

Even if he refused at first, once the child was born, how could he ignore his own flesh and blood?

And once he came to see his child, with her charm, it would be easy enough to make him fall under her spell.

She clung to his arm again, and though he pulled her hand off once more, her smile never

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dimmed.

“Victor, I want to marry you.”

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Her gaze was tender and determined. The more she looked at his noble, untouchable face, the stronger her obsession and certainty grew.

“I’ll treat you and the baby so well. I’ll take care of our home and make you the happiest man in the world! Victor, the baby is hungry–let’s go cat.”

The happiest man in the world…

Victor gave a bitter, self–mocking smile.

He no longer had happiness.

The moment he had failed to control himself that night, he had destroyed every chance at it with his own hands.

Victor drifted as though soulless, barely aware of how he made it to the dining room.

Marilyn, by contrast, glowed with smug delight, her laughter bright and triumphant.

Spotting Adeline seated beside Lily, she deliberately held onto Victor’s arm again, flaunting her claim.

James, Victor, and Blanc returned at that moment.

When James saw Marilyn clinging to Victor, his expression turned cold.

Ivan looked as if he had swallowed poison.

Blanc lost his appetite completely.

But his wife had invited Adeline to dinner. If he stormed out, it would look as though he were snubbing her. So he forced himself to stay calm, treating the two eyesores like thin air.

Henry and Grace hadn’t yet heard about Marilyn’s pregnancy.

Still, the sight of her clutching Victor’s arm made their vision darken, their hands itching to throw the pair out.

For Adeline’s sake, they held back.

Adeline’s fingers trembled slightly.

She told herself not to be jealous, not to hope. But watching Victor and Marilyn appear so close,

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