He stopped, his eyes sliding over my pale face, and his voice suddenly took on a teasing, mocking tone.
“You didn’t seriously put on this pitiful look to make me soften, did you?”
Right then, the last bit of warmth in my heart went completely numb.
In an instant, I felt nothing at all.
No hurt, no anger, no need to explain.
I just looked at him, the man I once loved with everything, and quietly said, “If you want to trust someone, then trust whoever you want.”
“It doesn’t matter anymore.”
Zion’s face turned even darker. He glanced at my pale face again, and for some reason, he said nothing more. Then he held Maeve and walked out of the room.
Not long after, Ravenna’s call came through. “Natalie, all the paperwork is finished. Contracts, notarizations, asset transfers, I’ve already had everything sent overseas.”
Right after that, the assistant contacted me and said all company matters had been fully passed over.
After I ended the call, I stood up and held the baby who had been brought back to me.
She slept quietly, her tiny breaths warm against my chest, soft and calm.
“Let’s leave, okay? Mommy will take you away, back to our own home,” I whispered to her.
That home, I didn’t want anything from it.
Those filthy people were not worth another look.
When the medical plane rose into the air, I stared out the window as the city grew smaller and smaller.
The baby in my arms shifted a little. I looked down at her calm sleeping face, my eyes turning warm, though no tears came anymore.
“From now on, it’s only us two.”
“Even without Zion, Mommy can still give you a good future.”
And I would walk into a new beginning myself.
