The Dreams Have Burned To Ashes

Laina Miller saw me backing away.

She burst out laughing.

“Come on, stop pretending! I know you’re so excited that you’re close to tears.

“I’m back now, so stop playing hard to get. As long as you take good care of Raivo and me, your title as my husband is secure. It’s not going anywhere.”

Hearing that, I almost laughed out loud in sheer frustration.

I wiped away my tears, then calmly retorted with a sneer.

“Laina, what makes you think I can’t live without you?”

The woman rolled her eyes again. She looked at me as if I were an idiot.

“We were engaged when we were twenty. You’ve been part of the Miller family for a long time now, and you even took care of my child for several years. If you don’t stay with me, where else will you go?”

Hearing that, I felt relieved.

Thank goodness I had ended whatever I felt for her and married someone else instead.

A few years ago, when we parted ways at the airport, she clung to me and swore, “Noah, wait for me for five months. I’ll definitely make a name for myself and come back to marry you!”

She had been gone eight months.

At that time, she sent the baby that she had with Raivo Fallon back to me. That meant that they had been having an affair long before she went abroad.

Everyone in the Capital knew about it, but I was the last to find out.

Every time I thought about it, I wanted to slap her across the face.

Just as I raised my hand, someone shouted, “Daddy!”

Sweeny ran over and held out his arms to me, waiting for me to pick him up.

His mother was busy with meetings today, so he had to stay with me for now.

Just as I leaned down to pick him up, someone yanked Sweeny away.

“Who are you calling ‘Daddy’? I’m your dad!”

Raivo leapt out from behind Laina, fuming, and slapped Sweeny twice.

My eyes twitched in anger. I shoved him away.

Before he even hit the floor, he grabbed at Laina’s sleeve. His eyes were red with rage.

“Laina, I just wanted the kid to call me ‘Dad’ once. If he doesn’t want to, that’s fine. How could he lay a hand on me?”

His outburst drew the bodyguards over.

The crowd surrounded Sweeny and me, while Raivo watched coldly.

I shielded the child behind me, gritted my teeth, and demanded angrily, “Are you all blind? You’re surrounding me over a servant? Do you even know who I am?”

“Enough!”

Laina arched her delicate eyebrow. Then, she crushed out her cigarette butt and pointed at me.

“Noah Lewis, who gave you the nerve to speak to Raivo like that?!

“He’s my husband and this child’s real father! You didn’t just keep them from reuniting but humiliated him in public!”

I snorted coldly and pushed her hand away.

“A mere servant thinks he can be my son’s father? Is he even worthy of it?”

If I had not shown kindness and let him stay at the Miller family house back then, he would have starved to death long ago.

Who would have thought he would repay my kindness with a betrayal such as climbing into my wife’s bed?

Laina grew even angrier.

She snatched Sweeny violently from my arms and shoved him into Raivo’s embrace.

The courtyard echoed with the child’s cries. “You’re bad people! Get lost!”