Marry My Billionaire Second Husband - Chapter 274

Chapter 274: Divine Retribution
Aiden was so distraught that he couldn’t even appreciate the thought of seeing Amelia again. He just sat on the floor, his head in his hands as he stared at his feet in defeat. His lips kept moving, muttering inconceivable words as Matteo got up, sighed, and walked towards Amelia, picking up a shawl on the way.

“It’s cold,” he said, placing the shawl over Amelia’s shoulders.

She smiled up at him, touching his hand gently. The shawl did bring some warmth back to her body, but that wasn’t enough to get rid of the frost that chilled her heart hearing Aiden in the living room.

“You told him?” she asked, casting a glance at Aiden’s back. He was still crouched over, his shoulders trembling for reasons she didn’t know.

Was he crying?

Matteo nodded once, his lips tightly pinched together to form a fine line. “Benjamin Hawthorne apparently stopped by the Montgomery Mansion,” Matteo said. “Aiden caught them together.”

Amelia’s eyes immediately widened. “Together?” she asked. “Like together together?”

“Like ‘kissing and groping’ together,” Matteo said with a grimace. “That would be the hard-sealed evidence when paired with what we learned from your mother’s diary earlier today.”

“They’re still seeing each other despite being married to other people,” Amelia said with a gasp of cold air. She felt her entire body turn cold. “That means…”

“Emmeline might be Catherine’s biological daughter,” Matteo finished the sentence for her. “That also explains why Catherine is so protective of her, and so insistent on marrying her to me to form ties with the Hawthorne family, rather than Aiden, her actual son.”

“Because they’re siblings―!” Amelia placed her hand over her lips, resisting the need to gag.

She wouldn’t usually have such a visceral reaction to the idea — it honestly seemed so ludicrous that it sounded fake! — but the baby in her stomach did not agree. After all, Aiden hadn’t just slept with Emmeline― they had created a child that they tried to pawn off to Matteo entirely!

“Aiden,” Matteo called out, leading Amelia to where his younger brother was currently rocking himself back and forth like a baby. “Get off the floor.”

Aiden merely slowly looked up― the bags beneath his eyes had turned darker since ten minutes ago when he hadn’t found out about this damning news. There were streaks of red in the sclera of his eyes and his lips had turned white and pasty.

“Amelia…” he finally said when his eyes landed on Amelia, who towered over him with her arms folded across her chest. “Is this… karma?”

“You tell me,” Amelia said with a huff as she sat herself down on the couch.

“Please for the sake of all things good, tell me that Matteo was just pulling my leg as revenge for what I did!” Aiden said.

“You can have a look for it yourself,” Amelia said. From behind, she held out a small leather-bound journal which Matteo hadn’t even noticed she had with her. It was Elaine’s diary before she had passed, nicked from her bedroom earlier today.

Aiden took it with shaky hands and flipped through it, his face turning paler and paler with each passing second. Finally, after long moments of silence, he closed the book and passed it back to Amelia.

“The baby…” Aiden said weakly. “That’s why Benjamin Hawthorne was insistent that Emmeline aborted the child. He must know. My mother was suspicious that the baby was mine too. She must’ve told him.”

“Where is Emmeline now?” Amelia asked, holding her mother’s diary carefully.

“I sent her back to the hospital,” Aiden replied. “Annalise Hawthorne, that cranky bitch… She doesn’t even realize that the egg she’s trying to protect isn’t even hers!”

Then, Aiden’s eyes widened as he whipped around, clutching the edge of the couch. Amelia jumped slightly due to his sudden action but relaxed when she realized he wasn’t anywhere near her. His fingers, however, dug into the plush cushion, leaving indents.

“I did a blood test with Emmeline’s baby!” Aiden exclaimed frantically. “If the results come out―”

“They might realize that you’re not just the father of the child,” Matteo said, sighing, “but also the uncle.”

“God!” Aiden yelled, suddenly jumping up as he pulled at his own hair. He walked back and forth, returning to his frantic pacing. “Did you have to state it so bluntly?”

“You should’ve thought carefully before sticking it in,” Matteo said with a shrug.

“Emmeline doesn’t know,” Aiden said.

“She doesn’t,” Amelia confirmed with a nod. “But with this…”

“The whole fucking world will know!” Aiden groaned. “Fuck… Oh shit… No way. Nuh-uh. We need to get to the hospital and get Benji Wales to destroy all evidence of the blood test before―”

He then paused, stilling. Then, he whirled on his heel and dropped to his knees right in front of Amelia, causing her eyes to widen with surprise.

“Amelia, please!” he begged. “I know I fucked up and I did you and Matteo dirty, but please, you got to help me!”

Desperate, Aiden even began to kowtow, knocking his forehead against the floor with a resounding thud each time.

“Just help me this once and I will make sure never to fuck up this badly again! I will even give X’el back to Matteo―”

“You never wanted it in the first place,” Amelia said with a deadpan. Nevertheless, she reached forward and helped Aiden up. “Now stop before you stain our floors with your blood.”

The center of Aiden’s forehead was a little red, but thankfully, the skin hadn’t broken so there was no blood. His eyes, however, watered as he stared at Amelia.

“Amelia, you are a goddess! I could kiss you―”

“Keep your mouth shut if you want us to clean your shit up for you,” Matteo said, rolling his eyes. Yanking the back of Aiden’s collar, he pulled Aiden to his feet as though the latter was nothing more than a kitten getting handled by its mother.

“How are we going to do this?” Aiden asked. “Are we going to fake the test results? Is that even legal?”

“If our guess is right and your mother and Benjamin Hawthorne both suspect you to be the father of Emmeline’s child, then it’s likely they will be trying to destroy the evidence as well,” Matteo said.

“Emmeline doesn’t even want to keep the baby after she realized she can’t use it to chain you down,” Aiden said. “Her mother― no, I mean, Annalise is the one that is desperate to use it as leverage.”

“In that case, we just need to get Annalise away from Emmeline long enough for Emmeline to privately speak with the doctors,” Amelia said.

“But how do we do that?”