Chapter 127

"Trys, I was wrong." Megan, feeling cornered, resorted to covering up one lie with another. She pleaded with Trystan, her eyes full of desperation. "I told Serene that you would marry me, and that's why she caused a scene at the charity dinner. "I promised her incentives, and that's the only reason she agreed to help me." Trystan pushed her away, his gaze turning even colder and more terrifying. "You've changed." Megan sank to the floor and cried uncontrollably. "I don't know. I was just too afraid of losing you," she sobbed. "When that happened, I was still a child, and I didn't understand anything. But as I grew up, I realized what I had lost." She lifted her tear-streaked face, clutching at Trystan's leg. "Trys, you're a man, so you don't understand what a child means to us women. The inability to bear children… It's devastating. Trys, I only have you." Trystan looked down at her, reflecting on the past. Finally, he sighed heavily and pulled Megan up. "Trys!" Megan cried, "