Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 302

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Linton’s eyes were deep and unreadable. He stood in the living room, one hand in his pocket, his tall and slender frame exuding a lazy grace. After a long silence, he spoke, his voice cool and detached. "I can tell you everything, but you have to promise me one thing."

"You can't tell Liliana. Not a word. She's pregnant, about to give birth. She can't handle the stress."

Gabriel’s eyes were cold. "Don't worry. I'm the last person who wants her to know about this kind of dirty business."

Liliana's world had always been clean. She had never been exposed to the dark or sordid side of life. To date, the worst people she had ever encountered were the two who had defined her struggles: Isabella, who had been jealous of her since childhood, and Mrs. Cooper, who had targeted her out of favoritism for Isabella.

Liliana always insisted she was grown up and shouldn't be treated like a child. But neither Gabriel nor Linton saw it that way.

In the living room, the two men, despite their different stances and mutual dislike, were united in a single thought. The girl they loved deserved to remain ignorant of these messy, ugly truths, to live a life of innocence and happiness, forever pure and bright.

Linton held nothing back, meticulously laying out all the information he had gathered.

When he finished, Gabriel frowned. "So, you're saying... these two brothers are trying to kill Liliana because they knew Isabella from the same orphanage when they were kids? That they had some kind of bond?"

"That doesn't make any sense."

Gabriel quickly pinpointed the flaw in the logic, his sharp instincts telling him something was wrong. His brow furrowed even deeper. "Isabella wasn't at the orphanage for long before old Mr. Cooper found her and brought her back to the family. She was only four or five at the time. They were just kids, and they didn't even know each other for that long. Where would they get this profound loyalty that would make them risk their lives to kill for her as adults?"