Chapter 446

Valeria had spent the night at Margaret's and barely slept. Early the next morning, she rushed to the prison for a visitation. She kept thinking of Alexander, and the warmth he carried, the ease of their conversations, how natural it felt being around him. But now she finally heard the truth. Her fingers dug into her palms as she asked, "So you knew all along I wasn't your daughter?" Melvin replied, "Your father was some rich kid who dumped your mother. I was just the one left holding the bag. I married her because I wanted a real life with her. She was beautiful, and I truly meant to be a good husband. "She was so happy when she found out she was pregnant. However, when you were three months old, you got a fever. During the blood test, they found out you weren't my daughter. She was already pregnant when she married me." Valeria left the prison in a daze, walking along the road with his words echoing in her head. So her father was the wealthy young man who had once been in lov