In the end, Linton Cooper successfully moved into a guest room at the Hart family's estate, taking on the responsibility of caring for the baby in the nursery each day.
Amelia Hart had already grown accustomed to his reassuring scent and couldn't be without him for long.
Linton was caught between joy and misery. He was happy the baby liked him, but he worried it would annoy Liliana Hart.
And Liliana was very annoyed.
Her body hadn't recovered well after childbirth. Even after waking from her coma, she still felt weak. Her small, delicate face was pale, and her pretty features had a sickly pallor.
Lying in bed recuperating, Liliana watched with a listless expression as Linton paced back and forth, soothing Amelia. For some reason, the sight of it grated on her, filling her with an intense irritation.
Liliana took a deep breath, her expression cool as she suddenly said, "Why don't you just take the child with you?"
The moment the words left her mouth, she herself was taken aback.
Linton's reaction was even more extreme.
He froze on the spot, clutching the baby. His eyes reddened instantly, and his throat bobbed. His lips trembled as he spoke, his voice filled with pain.
"Liliana, do you… do you hate me so much now that you don't even want our baby?"
His voice broke, but even as he said it, he instinctively covered Amelia Hart's ears, terrified she might hear.
Liliana fell silent.
She pressed her lips together, momentarily at a loss for words.
It wasn't that she disliked the baby.
She just didn't know why.
Seeing the baby cling to Linton, crying the moment he was gone, stirred an inexplicable frustration in her.
She was the mother, after all.
Blood ties were a strange and powerful thing, seeming to carve instincts into a person's very bones from birth.
For instance…
The baby's instinct to seek out her father.


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