Chapter 40

3/3 Chapter 40 +25 BONUS Chapter 40 Thalassa had given Kris that reply out of impulse, but once at left her mouth, she wasn’t willing to take it back. She’d wanted to hurt him, and judging from the forlorn lock in his eyes, she’d achieved just that.

Kris felt like a knife had been shoved into his chest as he finally stopped pinning her to the wall and stepped back.

“I see,” he said slowly, the pain weaving through every syllable and his voice. “If you knew the baby wasn’t mine, then why did you try to use it to stop me from divorcing you?”

He shook his head slowly, “What sort of woman are you? You wanted to deceive me into taking care of another man’s child. And just yesterday, you tried to guilt me about kicking you out of my life and not caring what happened to you.”

Thalassa ensured that her expression was stoic. “Now that’ve said what you want to hear, can you leave my office?”

“Who was the father?” Kris questioned instead of doing as she’d said. “Was it Zeke Mathews? How long were you two lovers before we divorced?”

“That’s none of your business,” Thalassa managed to say despite the ache in her chest. “And you have some audacity judging me when you were also having a relationship with my supposed best friend all along. She announced that she was pregnant only a month after we divorced, and the two of you got married afterward.”

His nostrils flared “That’s not how things happened between Karen and me. We weren’t “Save your breath, because I don’t care, Kris. The two of you deserve each other, anyway.”

Kris’s eyes blazed as they bored into hers. “You’ve been with Zeke longer than you were with me. Do you love him that much?”

Thalassa rolled her eyes. “Why? Don’t tell me you’re jealous because he was man enough to hold me down for so long, unlike you.”

Thalassa braced herself for his hurtful words as usual, but to her shock, nothing came. Instead, she saw anger and hurt flash in his eyes before he turned and stormed out of her office.

A few seconds later, Luisa hurried inside. “Kris looked very upset when leaving. Did he insult you ou again?”

Feeling exhausted, Thalassa walked to her desk and sank into her swivel chair. “No. He didn’t insult me.”

Luisa moved forward to stand beside her. “Then why did he look so upset? What did you guys talk about?”

“He came here because he made some investigations and found out I was telling the truth about being pregnant and losing the baby.”

“So, he now knows that the baby was his?”

Thalassa smiled bitterly. “No. I told him it wasn’t his.”

Luisa’s eyes widened with shock and confusion. “What? Why would you do something like that? I thought the whole point was making him see how wrong he was about you?”

“I don’t care about that anymore. He can continue to think whatever he wants of me. That won’t stop me from seeking the justice I came back for.”

Luisa sighed. She could sense so much pain between Thalassa and Kris, but it seemed neither of them was willing to show it.

Instead, they’d both resorted to playing the game of who could hurt each other more.

Chapter 40 +25 BONUS “What happened?” Alden questioned the moment Kris stepped out of Thalassa’s office looking upset. Kris didn’t reply as he continued his way towards the elevator, then outside, then into the car, with Alden following.

“Look, I took my time to accompany you here, so I do not appreciate being ignored,” Alden finally snapped.

“The baby wasn’t mine,” Kris deadpanned.

“What? How did you “She finally had the guts to admit it to my face,” Kris said. It was someone else’s child she was carrying.”

“Oh,” Alden said in disappointment.

He’d really been rooting for the fact that Thalassa was a decent woman and everything that happened three years ago was a misunderstanding.

But maybe he’d been wrong about her.

Kris, on the other hand, was feeling a brutal ache in his chest. He’d known that there was a possibility that the child wasn’t his, so why did it hurt now that Thalassa had admitted it to his face?

It wasn’t supposed to hurt this much. No. It wasn’t supposed to hurt at all, so why the hell was he feeling this way? 1