#Chapter 126: The Child

Alexander I stormed into my office and slammed the door hard enough behind me to splinter the wood in the frame. The last thing I wanted to do was lock Ella up. After everything we had been through together, I had truly begun to trust her… and more. I wanted to tell her how I truly felt about her. Today, I was going to come home and tell her that I wanted to make our relationship real—that I… Goddess, I couldn’t even think that four-letter word anymore. I was so hurt and angry by this whole debacle that even the mere thought of love made me want to be sick. If this contract was real and not forged, if it was true that Ella had signed a legal document outlining her plan to get pregnant with my child and manipulate me emotionally, I wasn’t sure what I would do next. Lock Ella up for life? No. No matter what she had done, I couldn’t do that to the mother of my child. I couldn’t let her rot away in a cell. And yet I couldn’t think of another