Right Person, Wrong Time

Colton suddenly had the urge to ask Nicole who the child belonged to. He remembered her helpless gaze at the hospital back then. When he mistreated her, she wanted to say something to stand up for herself, but he denied her. Frankly, he had never given her a chance to talk.

Hence, he went to look for Nicole. He did not expect she would be absent from the research center, so he strolled around. Then, his mind filled with the image of her and Chloe encountering each other and the looks on their faces back then.

At first, the two seemed to be discussing something serious, their expressions rather tense. Later on, Chloe seemed to have mentioned the child, and Nicole looked at her belly with a gentle gaze.

He would never forget that look in her eyes.

Colton smiled silently, but his smile was extremely forced and terrible to look at. When Beryl saw him like that, he knew nothing good had come out of his visit to Nicole. Thus, he said nothing as he sat quietly next to Colton.

By the looks of it, the night would be a sleepless one.

"I always thought that both of us suffered greatly in the relationship."

Suddenly, Colton spoke up, his tone hoarse. Beryl pursed his lips tightly, and instead of speaking, he waited silently for his next words.

"That's what I always thought, but the scene I witnessed today tells another story. Nicole was happy; she was happy without me. It's like she didn't care what happened as long as she had the child." At that, he held his head and slowly looked down. A moment later, his body began to tremble as if he were holding something back.

Beryl stared at Colton, not knowing what he could say to comfort him. He knew that no matter what he said, he would not be able to improve Colton's current emotions. The only person he ever acknowledged was Nicole.

"Am I selfish? I wasn't happy at all when I saw her living her life. I was sad. Another man had given her a happy life, but I could only offer her a life of wandering and vicious plots." Colton seemed to have had enough of crying. He slowly straightened his body as he looked out the window in a daze.

Indeed, he was a selfish person, always had been.

When Beryl heard that, he widened his eyes. It was only then that he realized the person Colton blamed all along was not Nicole but himself. He did not care about her 'aborting' the child or how 'intimate' she was with Zachary. Instead, he continuously blamed himself.

"Colton, our objective right now is to bring Ryan to justice and stop Kendrick from harming the Gardner Family, right? Don't get too absorbed in love and women." Beryl was exasperated, but the words that came out of his mouth were the most vicious to be spoken.

Still, he was right. The company and the organization both needed Colton. If they lost him, they would not maintain stability for a while.

Colton said nothing, his body stiff.