Chapter 279

"Still no baby? What's the deal? Is it because you can't have one or just don't want a child?" Blake's smile lingered, but the sarcasm in his voice was razor-sharp. To everyone else, it sounded like a brother teasing his little sister. It was nothing more than a harmless joke. But Blake knew exactly what he was doing. He knew Lucas didn't love Evelyn. That much was obvious. That, in his mind, explained why she was still in a broken marriage and why she didn't have a child. To him, it was pathetic. And it was practically a joke. Evelyn's expression finally shifted. Blake didn't know about her medical issues—how there was a real chance she might never be able to have children. And yet he had chosen to ask this, publicly. To outsiders, it probably sounded like a well-meaning bit of pressure. But to her, it was nothing less than having an old wound ripped wide open in front of everyone. One part of that pain was the marriage where she had been ignored and unloved. The other was the