Never Late, Never Away

Never Late, Never Away Chapter 597

to believe that the child she carried was his. He persuaded her over and over again to abort it. She must have been frightened back then. She must have hoped fervently that I would trust her, that I would protect her and our child.

But I was a b*stard. I never accepted that child as my own. Even after I conceded for Vivian’s sake, I never loved the child. That was his biological child, his firstborn. Yet, Finnick had abhorred the innocent child, loathing that the child had lived.

Afterward, his prayers came true—the child ceased to exist before it had the chance to see the world. Finnick would never know how that unborn child would grow up to look like. He wondered if it was a boy or a girl.

Finally, Vivian was disappointed in him. She left him and the country altogether, heading to a foreign country to start afresh.

When she came back years later, she was no longer the Vivian William he knew. The woman who returned was Vivian Morrison. Gone was the gentle, sweet woman, and in her place was a stranger who regarded him with indifference.

I was the one who drove her away from me.

her because of Fabian. “A trick to seduce men,” he had lashed out. He couldn’t believe that he had said such degrading

eyes blind my judgement? Was that yet another incident where I let my assumptions overshadow the truth? Is that why she was

the face. I am an a**hole, the

that it turned her blood to frost. “I’ll ask you one last time—what exactly happened? Think it through before you reply. This is your

would save her. Finnick had

Finnick. It’s because I love you so much. I was so scared that I would

“How dare you claim to

she rasped, “I knew you first, and I loved you first! What right does Vivian have to be with you? How is she better than

you shouldn’t have done something so horrendous. Are you even the Evelyn I know? Since when you became this vile?” Disappointment seeped through his

Evelyn’s throat when she heard Finnick’s harsh