Chapter 446

Emma Lane had always known—she wasn’t actually okay. It’s not that she didn’t feel wronged, just that after the mess her carelessness had caused back home, she didn’t feel like she had the right to complain about it. And later, when she found out she was pregnant and insisted on keeping the baby despite her parents' wishes, any right she had to feel sorry for herself just disappeared. If she could blame one person, it’d be the one who drugged Elijah Knight all those years ago. That person didn’t just mess with a guy who already had a girlfriend and genuinely took relationships seriously; they also dragged her, an innocent bystander, into the mess. Her biggest regret? Taking on the role of dorm monitor in her freshman year. If she hadn’t, she wouldn’t have gone to Alice Walker’s place late at night, worried for her roommate. But there’s no undo button for life. So when Jordan came along, Emma forced herself to stop dwelling on what had happened. She just wanted to raise her son right an