Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 244

“All of it... it was all just excuses, Linton. Don’t you see that yet?”

Liliana’s tone became melancholic, laced with a faint sadness.

Her soft, gentle voice floated through the air, reaching Linton’s ears.

Then it transformed into a hammer, striking his eardrums with a deafening blow.

“The real problem with our relationship... the root of it all... is that you never trusted me.”

“If you had trusted me, you would have told me everything from the very beginning. You wouldn’t have chosen to hide things.”

“If you had trusted me, you would have kept your distance from your adopted sister from the start, instead of enabling her time and time again.”

“If you had trusted me...”

“Never mind. I could give you a thousand examples, too many to count. I believed in you so completely, but you were always suspicious by nature. Maybe our love was never balanced from the start.”

Linton bit his lip hard at her words, his eyes filled with an unbearable anguish.

His lips trembled, his low voice cracking as if forced from his throat. “Then what about you?” he asked hoarsely.

“I’ve never understood it. Why did you choose me, back then, instead of Matthew? Instead of the man everyone thought was better.”

Liliana lowered her head. “You know it, too. He was the better man in everyone else’s eyes.”

“But Linton, they aren’t me.”

“In my eyes, the best person was always you. Only you.”

Liliana couldn’t hold back anymore. Her eyes red, her voice trembling with emotion, she confessed, “I... from the very first moment I saw you as a child, I knew it had to be you.”

“Linton, I am still grateful to you.”

“Grateful for the happiness you once brought me.”

“Grateful for the virtues you taught me.”

“Grateful that you once lit up the path of my life when I was lost.”

“But...”

Liliana paused, the smile on her lips growing more serene, more accepting.

“After all these years, after walking this road together for so long... it seems... this is where it ends.”