The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 623

“Don’t say another word.”

Cindy cut her off, shutting down the conversation.

Fallon let out a long sigh. “Cindy, I know this is a wound you just can’t get past.”

“I was a victim too, back then. If someone else had taken your child from you, and you could never have kids again, how do you think you’d feel?”

“I just couldn’t accept it at first—I was so lost in my anger and grief, I did something terrible.”

“Cindy, look inside yourself. Can you honestly say this is all my fault?”

“It was your own doing!” Cindy shot back.

“If you hadn’t destroyed someone else’s family first, you never would’ve gotten pregnant with a child out of wedlock—and you never would’ve lost that baby!”

Ungrateful, Fallon thought bitterly.

She’d devoted years to caring for Cindy, years she thought had built real affection between them.

Cindy had always said she saw Fallon as a second mother.

But In the end, blood ties won out—she’d chosen her biological mother after all.

Fine. Maybe this confrontation was for the best. At least now Fallon didn’t have to pretend anymore.

“Even if I brought it on myself, the real villain here is Latham,” Fallon said coldly.

“If he hadn’t lied to me, none of this would’ve happened. Sure, I was young and too easily deceived—but Latham? He had a family, responsibilities. ”

“Did he ever spare a thought for his wife, his children, before doing what he did?”

“So why is it that I’ve borne all the consequences? Why does a half-hearted ‘sorry’ from him make everything go away for him—while I’m left picking up the pieces?”

“Cindy, I really have treated you as my own daughter all these years. I’ve thought so many times about telling you the truth about where you came from—but…”

“I couldn’t do it. That child I lost… it was a wound that never healed.”

Of course, Fallon’s words were wrapped in just enough half-truth to be believable. Manipulation always worked best that way.

And Cindy, indeed, felt herself wavering.

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