Billionaire's Match

Chapter 713

Barney couldn't suppress the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. Moved, he drew Angela into his arms, holding her close. Angela's voice was soft but warm.

"Congratulations. Soon, your family will be whole again." Barney let out a quiet sigh.

"It will also fulfill my mother's last wish... to give her peace in the afterlife." He recalled being eight years old, when his parents' marriage was falling apart. His mother had left for a long time during the divorce dispute.

Later, his father had been surrounded by several other women.

with his father. Barney had overheard it all. She admitted she had been with other men and had even had a child with one of them. Enraged, his father had fought her, and from that point, they lived

until her death. As a child, Barney had thought all of his mother's actions were merely to spite his father. It wasn't until after her passing, when he read her letters, that he truly

in a cruel way, giving birth to a child she didn't know how to care for. Unable

until her death, she never spoke of it again. Yet as a mother, she had left letters, expressing her guilt and hope that one day Barney would find this

was something else.

empathy, Barney felt a rare calm. He had once worried that her past, being deceived by a scoundrel for ten years, was a sign of weakness. But now, she had changed-she was gentle, considerate, and

quietly, his hand resting on her

find her this time, I, as her brother, will do for her what our mother could not-I will love her in every way possible." Angela's