Chapter 78. Framed for a Crime (2)

At this point, the child was no more, dead without a witness, all she had to do was insist that the child was Matthew's, no one would be able to refute her.

Then, she would use this resentment over the lost child to "deal with" Flora.

Ensconced in the position of Mrs. Charles, having another child with Matthew was well within her grasp.

"Leave this matter to me, I'll take care of it." Matthew's lips twisted in a grim smile, his voice icy as he addressed the woman lying on the hospital bed.

In name, Selena was his wife.

And if he had not known early on that the child in her belly was not his, perhaps he would have been led by the nose by her today.

He had known all along that the child was not his, he had known all along that today's incident was Selena reaping what she sowed.

Not a shred of sympathy stirred within him.

Matthew, by nature, was a man devoid of warmth, shrouded in an icy aloofness.

All the love and tenderness he had