My Baby's Daddy

Chapter 402

Anastasia frowned. She found it odd that the man claimed he had nothing to live for on one hand while refusing her money on the other, and odrler still was how someone so heaten down insisted she stay away from Elliot. He simply wasn’t making any sense.

In the end, the man’s greed got the better of him as he said, “Fine, wire me the money!”

“I’ll hand you the card with the money in it if you come over personally to retrieve it,” Anastasia countered stubbornly.

“Trying to lure me out, I see. Hah! I’m no idiot, Anastasia. I know you’re trying to set me up to get caught! Save your energy and don’t bother trying to catch me; you won’t succeed. Stay away from Elliot if you know what’s good for you, you hear?”

With that, the man hung up.

Anastasia stared at her phone as she pondered on their conversation. She couldn’t help wondering why the man so stubbornly demanded that she stay away from Elliot. Does he bear a grudge against Elliot?

More to the point, the man had figured out that she was, indeed, trying to lure him out into the light by using money as bait.

In the past, she would do all that she could to avoid ever meeting the man who had assaulted her five years ago, but now, he was forcing her to confront him. She was starting to realize that the only way she could move on from her nightmarish past was not by running away, but by facing it head-on fearlessly. Perhaps it was only after she had personally condemned the sc*mbag to a life of imprisonment that she could finally look back on the incident from five years ago and learn to walk away from it.

matter what. She wouldn’t let him get away with what he had done to her, even if it meant having to tell

Hayley was seething with rage as she clutched her phone in one trembling hand after she realized that Anastasia could no longer be manipulated by

using the identity of the male escort to force Anastasia into staying away from Elliot, but the call had ended

threatened instead.

apartment. She got into the car and was ferried to a boutique in the

out a dress for the benefit

par for the course that she had to pick out something elegant and understated to match his refined grace. After all, the last thing she wanted was to humiliate him by wearing some old dress pulled from the

designer dresses from Anastasia to choose from, and the owner personally led her to peruse the

all of these dresses in favor of a beige one that accentuated her flawless, porcelain skin, which seemed to glow

slender figure and flattered her curves, and her

beautiful tonight, Miss Tillman,” Rey

the door open for her, and the staff

young lady born out of aristocracy whose every little gesture and expression radiated

revolving doors of the main entrance before he proceeded toward her. He looked

that she was gazing upon him with love and