Ignoring his son's murderous gaze, Maximilian pressed to his advantage. "Let me tell you, you don't stand a chance. Do you have any idea what they're saying outside? Rumor has it She has a child, and the father is either Michael Thorn from the Thorn Group, or Alexander Rois from Cadence Corporation! Look at yourself, how do you expect to fight two powerful men for that woman?"
Gabriel was stunned into a numb silence. Evelyn had a child? Why was her name being linked to those two men? Was her affair with Michael Thorn still unresolved? For a long time, he layed paralyzed on his bed. His mother was gone, and the woman he loved belonged to someone else; he felt there was no one left for him to miss in this world.
He made a silent pact: in two days, he would go back to Arise City to see his mother one last time, and then find Evelyn. If life remained this unbearable, he would choose liberation.
