How to Destroy a Cheater Without Saying Goodbye novel Chapter 61

"She's bound to take her in. I'm sure of it."

"Do you remember the little birthmark I tattooed on Lara's neck? A petal, just behind her ear? Well, the daughter you and I lost, Blanche, she had the exact same one."

"All she has to do is see that little mark, and she'll want to keep her."

"That's wonderful news!" Jeannette rose up on her toes, threw her arms around Eddy's neck, and pressed a kiss to the corner of his lips. "Thank you, Eddy."

Her eyes sparkled with adoration and a bashful, girlish glow, the kind that made her impossible to resist. Since getting pregnant, Jeannette's body had grown softer, more yielding, molding perfectly against Eddy's hard chest—enough to stoke his desire with just a touch.

His dark eyes, always mysterious, now brimmed with a tenderness so deep it seemed to pour out of him. He was smiling, but it was a smile deeper and softer than his usual, fixed on Jeannette as if she were the only thing in the world.

The way he looked at her was exactly how he'd once looked at Blanche.

Blanche had been standing outside for what felt like forever—long enough that her feet seemed to have taken root in the floor.

Eddy swept Jeannette up in his arms and carried her behind a blue curtain into the exam room.

He set her gently on the examination chair. Jeannette's legs settled into the stirrups, and she let out a shy little gasp. "The door—the door isn't closed…"

"You weren't worried about the door when you were trying to seduce me, were you?"

"It's not closed? Doesn't that make it even more exciting?"

Their flirtation hung thick in the air, their voices low and sweet, mixing with the creak of the exam chair—each sound crashing over Blanche's heart, threatening to pull her under for good.

Just then, Sophie approached.

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