Chapter 91

At those words, Clifford's head snapped toward him, his gaze sharp and intense. "What did you say?"

Killian's scalp prickled. Clifford's reaction made him wonder if he'd misspoken, if he should have left out the 'what if.'

He tried to backtrack. "I was just asking hypothetically. Don't overreact."

“Don't make that kind of hypothesis,” Clifford said, his tone cold and final.

Killian's eyelid twitched. It seemed Clifford was vehemently against Latisha having a child.

"Alright, my mistake,” Killian said with a weak smile. It was clear now that Latisha's decision to hide her pregnancy had been the right one. He couldn't understand why any man would be so opposed to having his own child.

Latisha had been caught in the rain the night before, and by midnight, a fever had set in. She spent the entire day in bed, too weak to move. No one even knew she was at Lambert Manor until a maid entered her room for routine cleaning that afternoon and found her.