Chapter 21

VERONICA I stared at him, my heart's pounding involuntarily as I swallowed the tension in my throat... Finally, we're here. The question I had been fearing all these years, the truth I had been concealing from the world— stands right before me. I am in a deep dilemma right now. What should I do? Should I tell him the truth, or should I continue hiding it? On one side, a fearful mother can not lose her other child as well. On the other side stands a helpless mother who perhaps can not protect her child as her father did. What should I do?— "Veronica, I'm asking you something." His cold voice pierced my thoughts as I blinked at him. The firmness of his intense gaze clenched my soul. My near-death situation crossed my mind. Only a mother knows why she chose her child to be born. Only she can feel the profound joy of giving birth to an innocent life. And when that child is snatched away from her, the agonizing pain that tears her apart is incomprehensible to others. And then—occurred the m