That child was Winnie's only connection to Ben.

She never expected him to call her at such a moment.

When Ben's name appeared on her phone, she answered immediately. However, not wanting Charlie to see her disheveled and emotional state, she stepped aside to take the call.

Ben's voice came through the line, cold and detached. "Winnie, I admit I approached you under a different name, but I've never done anything to harm you. And the child you're carrying, it's not mine."

His words hit her like a bolt from the blue.

If the child wasn't his, then whose was it?

That night, it was Ben who was by her side.

But then, he sent her a video. It was a horrifying one, showing those depraved playboys.

Everything became clear.

name but to stop her from harming an innocent child. Even in her madness, she couldn't bring herself to harm a child she had once protected with her heart. No matter how lost Winnie felt,

realized it before? She had never truly crossed paths with someone

only been a pawn. He didn't even bother to tell her his real name. All those times she reached out to him, all those moments she tried to get close, were met with indifference, if not outright disdain. Winnie took a deep, steadying breath and asked quietly, "Can I

put

proposed, "Let's meet

that, she ended

to Jamie, who was still weak and bedridden, a smile

convinced, and given her bond with Charlie,

smile on Jamie's face, Ben's heart

his deepest love and bitterest resentment, had thrown herself into harm's way for a child who wasn't even

recalled something his friend Sean had said. "If you love her, then just love her. Why can't you

her actions still left him unsettled. "Jamie, when you left me

question from the man who had done everything

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