How to Destroy a Cheater Without Saying Goodbye novel Chapter 171

The last time she'd been thrown into the river, the water closed over her head, and the agony of suffocation sent Jeannette into a panicked struggle. She clawed her way to Eddy's feet, clinging to his legs as she wept, her voice trembling. "Eddy, I know I was wrong. Please, I'm sorry! I'll never dare harbor those thoughts again!"

She sobbed harder, desperation leaking from every word. "Please, for Lara's sake—she's your daughter, I gave birth to her for you. Can't you forgive me?"

Lara, terrified to see her mother bullied, let out a wail and flung herself between them, trying to shield Jeannette. "Daddy, please don't hurt Mommy…"

"Enough. From now on, don't ever call me Daddy again." Eddy's voice was cold as marble. "Take this child to an orphanage. I never want to see her again."

"Eddy, Lara is your own flesh and blood!" Jeannette cried out in disbelief.

"My own daughter?" His eyes were icy, devoid of warmth. "So what?"

"If it weren't for my wife's frail health and her wish for a daughter, do you think I'd have let you keep the child?"

"My wife's gone now. What use do I have for a daughter?"

Jeannette stared at him, eyes wide with shock. "So everything you did was for her—for your wife?"

"You were only with me because of her? You had a child with me for her sake?" The memory of the feelings she'd once had for Eddy now seemed laughable, cruelly so.

"But Lara was born four years ago. I've been with you for five years—you even arranged for me to work right under your wife's nose, just so we could be together every day. You cared so much for Lara. Are you really telling me you never felt a thing for either of us?" Her words were anguished, like knives digging into his chest.

His wife's recent strange behavior had started the moment Jeannette began working at the villa.

It was all Jeannette's fault.

Jeannette thought she saw a flicker of doubt cross his face. She collapsed at his feet, clutching at him desperately. "Eddy, your wife isn't coming back. I'm younger, I'm healthier—let me stay with you. Let me be the one by your side."

Eddy looked down at her, his expression lofty, detached, as if gazing at something pitiful. "My wife will come back. She has to."

At his signal, the guards stepped forward, pulling Jeannette and Lara apart. Their fingers slipped from each other's grasp, and both mother and daughter broke down, their cries tearing through the room.

"Daddy, please—Daddy, don't—!"

"Eddy, I'm begging you, let me go…I know I was wrong!"

Their desperate screams left Eddy untouched, his heart cold and unmoved.

They were the ones who'd distracted him, who'd taken his attention away.

If he'd only spent more time with his wife, he would have noticed something was wrong. She would never have discovered the truth, never have gotten hurt.

Their sins were unforgivable.

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