Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress Novel

Chapter 399 "Well, of course," the nurse said with some confusion. "Sometimes you went by that name, Luna." As soon as she said that, her face went white as a sheet, so quickly that she looked like she might faint. I reached out to steady her. "Please don't tell anyone I said that," she begged. "I'm such an airhead sometimes. I shouldn't have said anything." "It's okay," I said, trying to ease her sudden fear. "I won't tell anyone I heard it from you. "Thank you," she said, but didn't seem at all relieved. "Please, excuse me, Luna.

I'm sorry." With that, she hurried away from me and shuffled down the hall, disappearing into one of the employee areas, likely a break room. I stared after her, even more confused than I had been before. That evening, around the dinner table, I was unusually quiet. Damien was smoothly picking up the slack, asking the girls about their day. He sent me occasionally worried looks, with I tried to respond to with a kind, easy smile. But that smile wasn't genuine. Inside, I was still trying to parse together who was telling the truth and who was lying.

When I had asked Damien who Annette was, he had told me she was someone who just happened to look like me. Yet the nurse at the hospital had seemed certain that I was Annette, just going under a different name. Of course, I trusted my husband with my life, and it was possible that the nurse, who didn't know me nearly so well, had been one of the people to confuse me and Annette. But Damien had also been very elusive with me, distracting me rather than facing my questions head on. He was my husband, my best friend, and my lover. As such, there should have been nothing we kept from one another.

Yet... why did it feel so much like something had happened in the past six years that he simply did not want me to know about? There had to be some reason. Likely, as protective as he was, he was trying to shield me from some hurt that maybe had nearly ruined me. But the not knowing was difficult. It made me question things even more, even harder. It caused a great deal of discomfort in my soul. At the same time, I knew, to bring this up with Damien would only make things more difficult. He was trying so hard to keep things from me. Maybe I should trust him about this.

Maybe if he was going through so much effort to keep me in the dark, that it really was something I needed to be kept in the dark about. That wasn't easy to accept. 1/2 I didn't know what to do. After dinner, Damien sent the girls ahead to play, but stayed behind with me, offering me an arm to help me up from my seat. His expression was one of concern as he looked into my face, his eyes searching. "Is everything alright, Amelia? Did something happen today?" "No, nothing happened," I told him.

Not only was that true, but also I wanted to protect the nurse who had let slip what she knew about Annette. "I suppose I'm just not feeling well." Damien nodded, easily accepting that answer. "You had a trying time at the banquet. Didn't I ask you to take it easy today?" "You did." A quiet fell between us again. Damien continued to look at me. "Are you sure you are okay, Amelia?" "I am," I told him. "There's nothing to worry about." He accepted my word with a nod, which made a terrible sense of guilt rise within me. I felt like I had just lied to him. 2/2 Joseph King