Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 81

“Liliana…”

A sharp pain lanced through Linton’s heart, so intense it made him narrow his eyes. The color drained from his handsome, chiseled face.

His deep-set eyes remained fixed on Liliana, searching her expression for any hint of a lie, any crack in her composure.

He hoped, desperately, that this was just another one of her moods, another argument like the dozens they’d had before.

But the longer he stared, the more he saw the cold, detached look on her face. The brilliant, captivating eyes that once held nothing but adoration for him were now empty, placid as a still lake, reflecting neither joy nor sorrow.

Linton’s breath hitched.

A sudden, inexplicable panic seized him. Alarm bells screamed in his head as the terrifying realization dawned: this time, she was serious. It was a truth his mind refused to accept.

A tremor ran through his body, a flicker of raw fear in his usually cool eyes.

Unable to suppress his emotions any longer, he lunged forward, his eyes bloodshot. His hands clamped around her wrists like manacles, pulling them up in front of her.

“Liliana, I won’t let you leave me!”

His familiar, cool voice was laced with an uncharacteristic tremor of panic and fear, the confident, calculating tone he always wore now completely gone.

He brought his face close to hers, his lips brushing the corner of her mouth as he softened his voice, trying to coax her. “Come on, Liliana. Be good. Don’t leave me. I will never agree to call off the engagement.”

“Please, don’t do this. I’m begging you, okay?”

He stared at her, his face growing paler, his reddened eyes filled with a desperate, stubborn plea.

Liliana met his gaze, her eyes locking with his deep ones. A small, sad smile touched her lips.

“Linton, that’s what I should be saying to you. Please, don’t do this. I’m begging you.”

“We’ve known each other for over twenty years. Let’s end this amicably. There’s no need to make it ugly. Don’t give me a reason to hate you, okay?”

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