He offered a smile that wasn't quite a smile, his voice laden with a deeper meaning:
"Even if he is an illegitimate son, he couldn't have just sprung from a stone. So, who is the child's mother? Is it that you don't know, or is it a secret you can't tell? Or perhaps she remarried, and you're afraid I won't be able to accept it, so you're keeping it from me?"
Although Dylan Morgan hadn't given Veronica Shawcross any official status, she and her daughter were living in an apartment registered under his name.
Dylan Morgan would stay over whenever he had the time, making Veronica Shawcross essentially his kept mistress.
So how could Seraphina possibly tell Jared that the woman he once loved so deeply was now another man's mistress?
At this thought, Seraphina had no choice but to tell Jared, "She's dead."
Seraphina's two words, "She's dead," sent ripples of shock through Jared's heart.
Jared stared blankly at Seraphina for a moment. "Dead? How did she die?"
