From Betrayal to Brilliance Her Rise to a New Life novel Chapter 391

Chapter 391 They Swapped the Babies

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“At the time, I was panicking. I left you behind and rushed straight to Nina.

“I figured I could just come back to you later, but Nina wouldn’t let up. She was pregnant, and there was no way my family would accept the child–especially my mother. I was still trying to win over my grandfather…

“Nina wouldn’t stop crying and throwing tantrums about it. So I was stuck with her for unable to come back to you …

“When I finally calmed her down and made it back, you were already gone.

…

“I went to pick you up When I got to the hotel room, I saw … ” He hesitated. “You were unconscious, and the place was a mess. But there was no sign of anyone else. I searched everywhere, even checked the security cameras.

“Guess what, all the evidence was gone.”

Athena’s eyes widened in shock.

“I wanted to confront you but-” Lewis lowered his head in shame.

…

ages,

Back then, he didn’t love Athena at all. He’d been angry for a while, but Nina had quickly pulled his attention away.

“But soon after, you found out you were pregnant. But … I …” He choked up, bitterness in his voice. “Nina suggested you should have the baby, then when you weren’t paying attention, we’d swap the baby out so you could raise her child instead….

A wave of disgust and horror crashed over Athena.

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Her vision spun. She had to brace herself on the cold table just to stay upright.

“So you lied to me and told me you were the father of my child?” Athena’s voice shot up a notch, her calm finally cracking as anger welled up. “You watched me suffer! You knew a stranger had been with me that night! Lewis, how could you lie to me like that?”

She could have chosen not to keep that child.

Lewis was stunned by her outburst.

“I didn’t want this either! Athena, I really … I just didn’t have a choice! Nina was blackmailing me … I lost my mind … Athena, just let it go, all right? No one knows who the father is, so there’s no point in trying to find out.”

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Chapter 391 They Swapped the Babies

The air went dead silent.

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Athena didn’t respond. Her face was grim, her silence almost frightening.

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She spent seven years of her marriage raising someone else’s child, and everything she treasured had been built on this ugly, disgusting lie.

Even the child she thought she had lost was conceived amid so much shame and confusion.

“It was all Nina’s fault!”

“She knew I was obsessed with her, and she threatened to expose your child to my family unless I got rid of it.”

So, he’d chosen to abandon my child in order to protect Nina’s?

Athena looked at him, the last bit of warmth in her gaze finally freezing into hate.

“So you

lost my baby, and you don’t even know who the father was?”

Her voice was so cold it could chill the whole room.

Lewis buried his face in his hands, shoulders shaking with grief. “I don’t know. I really don’t know what happened after. I paid off the head OB–GYN, and she promised she’d take care of it.

“I thought she’d get rid of the baby.”

He looked up, face streaked with tears, desperate for forgiveness and redemption.

Lewis stared at Athena.

He thought she was ready to give up, but she suddenly said, “Tell me where you sent my baby.”

Lewis frowned. “You’re still trying to find her?”

“She’s my child. Of course I am still trying to find her!”

Athena had already started bracing herself for this moment.

Right then, she made up her mind. She would find her child, no matter what.

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