Chapter 172 Antonio, let's part ways on good terms
Antonio noticed a flicker of a different hue in Sarah's eyes, and his gaze darkened. It seemed like she had been thinking about something before he entered.
Is it... about the divorce?
Thus, they kept a certain distance between them, leaving Harper caught in helplessness.
Oh, adults really love silence!
Harper walked over to Sarah's side, pleasingly took her hand, and sweetly said, "Mommy, Daddy has prepared a sumptuous dinner for us... Shall we invite Mr. Alex to join us?"
Mr. Alex? Sarah lowered her gaze at her daughter. This child changes her wording quickly.
"Mommy isn't hungry. You go to Alex's room and ask him and Ethan to have dinner together. Don't go hungry."
Upon hearing this, Harper's eyes brightened for a moment. Was this a deliberate way to separate everyone, leaving only her parents to talk alone?
"Yes, yes, alright!" Harper turned around and was about to leave the room. As she passed by Antonio, she didn't forget to give him a thumbs-up gesture!
Once the room quieted down, leaving only the two of them, Antonio attempted to take a step closer, but Sarah stopped him.
"Just say what you want to say."
Sarah instinctively stepped back. Her emotions were currently complicated.
She had just found out that she wasn't John's daughter and couldn't adjust her state of mind yet, especially when facing Antonio. Her heart was in chaos.
"I wanted to explain to you, between Lisa and me, from beginning to end—"
"I know," she interrupted before he could finish his sentence.
She learned everything before Lisa was arrested. Even if there wasn't that deliberately manufactured "betrayal." the two of them... could never go back to how things were.
Sarah didn't want to tell Antonio about the despicable things Lisa had done. It didn't matter anymore. She no longer hated Antonio.
But this didn't mean she wanted to be with him again.
"Antonio, let's part ways on good terms. No matter what you want to say, my decision won't change."
To part ways on good terms…
Little did she know this casual sentence sounded so harsh to Antonio's ears.
"Your decision won't change, and neither will mine." Antonio's persistence was no less than Sarah's, especially with the current situation being different from before.
A faint curve appeared on his thin lips, and his voice seemed nonchalant as he said, "But I think Harper won't be willing to let us separate. She is my daughter, the product of our love."
This was an unbreakable bond.
However, this statement seemed to carry a hint of threat to Sarah.
What does he mean? Using our child...
Sarah's expression changed. "Antonio, you can't take my child away!"
She knew that once Antonio had leverage with Harper and Ethan, she would be completely controlled—she couldn't lose everything!
No matter how much Harper liked Antonio now, she would not allow him to keep Harper around!
Upon seeing Sarah's anxious expression, Antonio's thin lips pressed lightly, and his face gradually darkened.
Just because he mentioned Harper, did she think of him like this? Did she think he wanted to use the child as leverage to force her to stay?
Although that was what he used to think, now that he knew both children were his own, he wouldn't exploit them.
"Sarah, don't think so low of me. They are still my children." Antonio took a step closer, his voice lowered. "I just want to make it up to them... Make up for all these years for you."
"There's no need," Sarah firmly refused.
If Antonio had said these words before, she would have found them laughable and mocked his hypocrisy. But now... he owed her nothing, and she didn't want to have any further connection with him.
"Antonio, don't you think you only bring us disasters?"
Lisa and Lucien, why did they target her and the children? Antonio couldn't be unaware of it. If he truly wanted the two children and her to be well, if he wanted her to have a good life, he should let her take the children to a safe place, live a peaceful life, and never disturb them again.
"Even without Lisa, there will always be another one. Besides... Ryan's existence cannot be erased."
Even if Ryan was an unintended child with Lisa, even if it was a setup, Ryan's existence could not be erased, and it was the reason Lucien targeted her children. Sarah couldn't gamble with her children anymore.
If she lost, she would lose this marriage, this... relationship that had never had trust.
Meanwhile, in the hotel lobby…Harper moved closer to Ethan, trying hard to please him. "Ethan... just give Daddy another chance, test him again, give him a chance... Trust me, once we go back to him, he will treat us very well."
Ethan continued eating his pudding, showing no change in expression, unmoved. "Harper, so you want to abandon Mommy?"
"Of course not! We'll go back to Daddy with Mommy, as a family. And besides, Mommy doesn't hate Daddy anymore. Why do you still want to make things difficult for him?" Harper said as she lifted her little arms, staring at Ethan stubbornly.
Ethan felt uncomfortable under her gaze, and the pudding in front of him suddenly lost its appeal. He glanced at his sister and remembered what Brian had told him before.
Ethan rubbed his chin. Test Bad Guy? I am not refusing to give it a chance, but…
In the end, Ethan relented, "It's no use telling me. I respect Mommy's choice. If she chooses to go home with Bad Guy, then I'll go with her."
Harper finally heard the answer she wanted, and she was so excited that she almost jumped up!
As long as Mommy goes home with Daddy, Ethan…
"It won't be a problem."
"But with Mommy being so strong-willed, do you think she will agree so easily?"
"Hehe!" Harper chuckled cunningly. "You don't need to worry about that. I have my ways!"
Harper patted her little chest—she had hatched a plan long ago...
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