Can’t Win Me Back

“Javier, listen! Your child is kicking my belly. She took after your strength!”

“Javier, look! Betty’s eyes and mouth resembled yours. She’s a carbon copy of you!”

A carbon copy of his? Javier’s lips twitched uncontrollably in an ugly manner.

Javier had always prided himself on his wits and the elite education he had received. He couldn’t believe that he had been fooled by Sophia, an actress who had hailed from the slums.

However, there was nothing he could do about it—Sophia was long dead.

Surrounded by the merciless media, the forlorn Javier escaped the press conference with the help of Neil and the other bodyguards.

the situation as the family patriarch, but he hadn’t expected it to backfire. The Beckett family, riddled with scandals, now had one more

become

disheveled in his wrinkled suit

lenses against the car window to take photos of his stiff

Javier angrily kicked the

accelerated and sped

time, Neil continued scrolling through Twitter. Upon seeing Betty’s paternity scandal top the trending topics, outshining Zoe, he

dared not tell Javier about it. He feared that

this