Sydney's disgusted tone stunned Julien on the spot.
Sydney covered her head anxiously.
It was Julien! The man that night was Julien!
No, it was impossible! She clearly remembered she woke up to a different man in the morning, not Julien.
Sydney refused to fully believe Julien. She looked around for her phone and grabbed it like she was grasping for straws. She tapped on WhatsApp and called a contact named BH.
A moment later, Julien’s phone in his pocket rang. The ringtone exclusive to WhatsApp call sounded.
The moment she heard the ringtone, Sydney felt like the entire world collapsed on her. Her phone slipped out of her hands and fell on the sheets.
It was him! It was really him!
Sydney could not lie to herself anymore. The man that night was indeed Julien!
She clutched her sheets tightly and glared at Julien. Furious, she shouted, "Why did you lie to me!? Am I that gullible to you?"
"I did not..."
Her anger interrupted him. "Tell me! Did you do it on purpose?!"
She giggled. "I was drunk that night but you weren't, is that right? You knew it was me but you didn’t tell me. Instead, You used some BH name and kept in contact with me. Whenever I thanked you for your help, you must be laughing at me from the back, taking me as an idiot because I should've known BH is you, Julien Flint!"
Julien frowned. "I admit that I concealed my identity to keep in contact with you but I've never lied to you or laughed at you. BH is also my name. You know, Burton Harrow."
From the start to the end, he had been contacting her using his real name but she did not notice it.
Sydney scoffed. "Who the hell would think that BH is Burton Harrow?"
Moreover, she only found out about Julien being Burton Harrow when she knew he was Buddy.
Therefore, even if she suspected that BH was Burton Harrow at the beginning, she did not know Burton Harrow was Julien
Flint.
Julien gulped and suddenly went silent.
Indeed, it was difficult for one to know his name based on his initials.
Finn watched from the side quietly. He looked at the guilty Julien and the furious Sydney and slightly pushed his glasses.
'My my, I think the revelation caused a little bit of trouble here.'
Sydney clenched her fists tightly and forced a bitter grin. "No wonder Lyra wanted me to abort the baby. She knew it's yours!”
Julien reacted with a heavy look. "Lyra knows the baby is mine?"
Impossible. There was no way Lyra would know. He did not tell Lyra about him and Sydney that night, so how did she find out? "Sydney is right. Lyra knew and I can vouch for that. I knew early on because Lyra told me," Finn said as he pulled out a scalpel from his doctor's robe and played around with it.
"And Hunter..." The sardonic grin on Sydney’s face grew stronger. "When you contacted me using BH's identity, you claimed you were Hunter's friend. That's why when I asked him about you, he said he's not that familiar with you. I believed him without even suspecting!
"Now I realized I was the biggest idiot, being toyed around like nobody's business. Everyone knows the baby in my belly is yours, except for me! How ironic!”
Tears rolled down her cheeks while the sardonic grin remained. She was deeply hurt.
"I’m sorry.” Julien apologized with his head down.
Other than sorry, he did not know what to say.
He was under hypnosis back then and he did all those inglorious acts, so no matter what he said, he was wrong.
Sydney ignored his apology. She looked at Finn and said, "Arrange the operation right away. I don't want this baby anymore."
Finn raised a brow and then nodded. "Of course. I'll make the arrangement right away."
"Thank you." Sydney bowed at him.
Julie frowned at her. "Sydney..."
"What now? You want to stop me?” Sydney forced a cold grin on her face. "Too bad it’s too late. The baby is beyond saving. Even if it's still healthy, I won't keep it. Why should it? Why should I give birth to a b*stard that the mother doesn't love and the father doesn't want?"
"He's not a b*stard, and I didn't say I don't want him." Julien tried to correct her.
Sydney grunted. "No? When you were BH, I asked for your opinion about the baby and you said if I chose to give birth, you'll pay for his expenses and raise him with me secretly. The word 'secretly' says a lot. You don’t want the baby and have no plans to take him in, am I right?"
Julien's heart skipped a beat as if an invisible hand clutched his heart.
He gulped nervously and answered heavily, "Yes. That's what I thought back then because I didn't realize I love you.
When I finally realized it, the thought vanished. I've always wanted to tell you I'm the father and I'll take him in and love him, but I didn't get the chance."
"So what? Now, your baby will be gone forever." Sydney mocked him.
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