Chapter 119

Earlier, while Andy was updating Ethan, Claire sneakily jotted down Emma's number. Making sure no one noticed, she slipped into the restroom, glanced around carefully, then pulled out her phone. "Ring ring—ring ring—" The call went on forever, but no one picked up. Emma was by her dad's bedside the whole time; the phone was buried in her purse, completely out of sight and mind. After Andy finished reporting, Ethan sat there, emotions all over the place. He didn't even know what was wrong with him. For the past five years, Emma's face would just pop into his head out of nowhere. He wasn't even sure what he felt when he asked Andy to dig into her life—he just really needed to know what she'd been up to. At the same time, he was pissed. He had once wrongly accused her of messing around with Michael. Now hearing she's single with a kid? That just made him see red. Thinking about Emma having a child with another man, picturing her in someone else's arms—it made his blood boil. Then he remem