Chapter 749

Bonian leaned in close, their breaths mingling.

“Should I just end it now?” he murmured. “Tell Emmie everything? Drag her off for an abortion?”

“No!” Jayde gasped. “That’s your child!”

“Then what’s your plan?” he asked, his stare cold and unrelenting. “Speak.”

“I’ll make it up to you,” she said quickly. “Money, anything—just name it. Then let it end. Be good to Emmie. Pretend I’m dead. I’ll disappear, leave the country if I have to. I won’t interfere.”

Bonian’s eyes narrowed. Then he laughed bitterly. “You deserve a Nobel Prize for imagination. You think that’s enough to wipe the slate clean?”