THE PAUSE

CHAPTER 98 Lily I froze immediately. No, no, no. They couldn't have known everything that I've been hiding this whole time. I looked over at Lucien, and he still had his eyebrows cocked. He was waiting for me to say something. Lila was looking shocked, while Olivia was trying so hard to hold back her laughter. The bitch. I blinked twice at Lucien. “What are you saying, baby?” I asked, taking a step towards him. He took a step back like I was some kind of plague that he was supposed to avoid. “Trying to lie about it won't even work,” he said, but there was no way I was backing down on all this. Not when I have already gotten this far. Not when his mother already knew this child as the heir to their family. “But I'm not even lying about anything. This is nothing but the truth. The child is yours. I know that it hasn't exactly grown yet, but listen… they might even be twins.” Lucien looked away, obviously tired of whatever I was saying. My mother hurried over to where I was st