“What are you babbling about?”

Georgia demanded furiously. Robert grabbed her hand.

“Don’t listen to her bullshit.”

Sierra, though, started cackling madly.

“Would I still lie to you about such a thing at a time like this? You can’t even imagine everything Robert’s been through in the past year. Why else would he have been so thankful, even believing me to the point of promising to marry me? I appeared at his side in the guise of a savior all along, and he couldn’t have been anything other than grateful.

“But all that acting and he still caught on. I wanted to ask you, Robert – before you planned to fake your death, where did I go wrong?”

Georgia tensed, fearful that Sierra was telling the truth. She looked nervously at Robert.

Robert smiled faintly at Sierra.

“Because you’re not Wesley’s biological mother. You made a misstep there, which led me to start suspecting you.”

“It was for that reason, huh.”

Sierra chuckled self-deprecatingly.

“I guess someone who’s not biologically related will never be able to act as loving as a real mother. No wonder you found something off. But so what? You can shut me up here, or even take me someplace to be tortured. You won’t be any better off, Robert Simpson. I don’t believe you’re unaware. Your body’s already been through all sorts of human experimentation. It’s run ragged. I don’t believe you can live long enough to be with Georgia for the rest of her life.”

gaze that was both hateful and pitying as

if sneering at Robert’s victory, and the time he

always trusted her instincts. At this moment, though, she was terrified of them, because she believed Sierra was telling

all true, then what was wrong with Robert’s

didn’t know at all. Georgia

telling the

insane laughter as

it outside. Don’t bother with her. She’s gone nuts, and she’s just spouting

there seemed to rustle at her and goosebumps

basement, the winter sun shone on her, but she felt none of the warmth, only a

paler, Robert wrapped his arms around her and kissed her

just taking it out on you and trying

but if something like that happened again, and you kept it from

fear, looked at

gentle, tall and handsome as the man she’d

year over her

have you list them all. I won’t force you to speak about them. I wanted to ask you something else. When you first had your incident, your leg wound hadn’t fully healed yet. The original plan was to go through a few more neural surgeries, then stand again slowly through physical therapy. That was a long plan that needed a whole year, but you disappeared after the first surgery. You kept on vanishing this year, and I don’t believe Sierra would have gotten anyone to help you with surgery, much less get a bunch of peak neural surgeons together to operate on you. Ivan couldn’t have been able to find out where

of human experimentation

no normal lab, but the sort of

all sorts of psychopathic tests. Georgia couldn’t even picture what Robert had

world’s biggest idiot right now. How was it Robert could stand

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