I shook my head. “Are you sure? Please do not lie to me. I know he cannot control his temper when you are around. So did he do something?”
I shook my head again and kissed him on the lips—just softly, to calm him down. “On the contrary, honey-pie, I was the one who hurt your son this time around,” I said.
He furrowed his brows. “What happened?”
“I said things I should not have said. I told him… that I was with you for money.”
Dr. Aldrich blinked. He drowned in deep thoughts.
I rushed to explain. “That is what he thinks. That is what he wanted to hear because he cannot handle the fact that I love you. That I replaced him with you, even though he is the one who cheated. Nor can he handle the fact that you fell in love with the woman who was once his.”
“But, you telling him that,” he wa
