Chapter 486

He shook his head. How could a woman give up her right to her child? It just didn’t make sense to him. “What the hell, mum?” Liam burst out. “How did this even happen?” “I loved your father,” Loretta said, gazing between Liam and Jonathan. “He told me you left because we weren’t enough for you. He told me you left for a man with money.” Loretta’s eyebrows climbed her forehead and disappeared into her fringe. “He lied,” she said. “So why did you leave?” She sighed and looked away, gazing out over the water but not seeing it. “I fell pregnant at the end of my senior year,” she said. “Your father married me and I thought we would live happily ever after.” She turned to look at him. “From the minute I knew you were growing inside me, I fell in love with you.” “And yet you still walked away.” “It wasn’t like that,” she said, looking down at her lap. She took a breath and looked back up at him. “Your father was partly right. Being a wife and mother wasn’t enough. I wanted more. I wanted a ca