Chapter 73. Revenge!!!

Ava

He didn’t stop there.

He looked me dead in the eye and kept going, voice flat, like he was reading from a coroner’s report.

“She’s pregnant for him and it’s his. Your father’s. She admitted it the night I confronted her. She said she found out right before I could claim it as mine, thought she could bury it, she thought marrying me would make it disappear. The kid is your brother, Ava. Full blood. Your direct little brother.”

The floor tilted.

I gripped the edge of the counter so hard my knuckles went white.

Pregnant for my dad all this while?

That meant it happened while Adrian and my mom were newly engaged, while I was spiraling, while I was letting half the town inside me trying to feel something other than them.

While I was busy hating myself for wanting Adrian, my own mother was busy making a new sibling with the man who’d already ruined us once.

I couldn’t breathe.

Adrian watched the color drain from my fac