Leo was stunned for a moment; her quick-witted retort suddenly grasped at his heart. He looked at her, struggling to hold back tears with her eyes red and puffy, and then at her hand covering her lower abdomen.

There is a life being nurtured there, is it mine? At first, I couldn’t help but leap with joy at the news of her pregnancy, but then came the revelation of her eloping with my brother, and the child in her womb might not even be mine!

Thinking of this, it felt as if his heart was tightly squeezed; the happiness he felt upon hearing about her pregnancy exceeded his own expectations....