#Chapter 140: No More Need To Hide

Lucian’s POV As Aria checked to ensure that her disguise was in place, I stepped out of her personal office and back into the main one. The kids, by now, were showing each other their crayon drawings, while Cathy sat patiently in one of the waiting chairs. Cathy was watching me. Maybe she could see in my face that I knew what I knew now. Maybe she had known from the start what Aria was going to tell me. I didn’t know, nor did I have time to worry about it. Instead, my focus was on the children, though they paid no real attention to me, with as deeply as they were discussing their drawings. I tried to calculate their age, remembering Dr. A’s pregnancy. The truth was staring me right in the face. I’d pushed Aria away so much during our marriage that I had led her straight into the arms of another man for comfort. With my negligence to our marriage, she had left me in her heart long before she moved out of our estate. Though the thoughts repulsed and enraged me, I could n