CEO's Tears Over Pregnancy Test Discovery

"Lydia, do you really not feel anything for me? Not even a little?" Eugene asked, still clinging to a thread of hope. "Just a little, that's all I'm asking."

He had tried so hard, done everything he could, and still, it was as if he couldn't melt Lydia's heart.

"And we've already been involved. I want to take responsibility for that. I'm not trying to play around. Lydia, please think this over carefully. We slept together!"

"Do you hear yourself right now?" Lydia sighed, her patience running thin. The more he clung to her, the more determined she felt. It was clear they couldn't even remain friends.

With a final attempt at patience, she said, "That night is behind us, Eugene. Stop bringing it up. According to your logic, since I have a child with Quincy, he and I should be bound together forever. But that's just not how things work." Eugene clenched his fists, his jaw tightening. "Lydia, don't say things just to push my buttons."

of Lydia and Quincy reconciling made

You should go now, and please

out there all this time? Just let me rest for a minute. I'm exhausted from standing outside." Eugene

big deal, but Lydia didn't want to give him any reason to hope. She knew a small courtesy would only

mean another and another until she was tangled in endless

I'm sure your family isn't in need of my

the bone. As he left, he looked back and asked, "Lydia,

it's best if we don't contact each other. When you get married, I'll send a generous gift," Lydia said

of a bride gifting the groom? He