Seven Years a Shadow: The Stand-In's Escape novel Chapter 14

Without hesitation, Gavin immediately said, “You take a cab to the hospital with Yara. I can’t make it back right now.”

Listening to his response, my heart turned colder and colder. I couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh.

As expected, even when his daughter was sick, he still chose to stay with that mother and son.

Such a man didn’t deserve to be a father!

At that moment, Yara, with a red face and in a daze, asked, “Mom, is Daddy with someone else again…?”

My nose burned, and I tightly squeezed Yara’s hand. “Don’t worry, Yara. No matter what, Mommy will always be by your side.”

“Mommy, can we not have Daddy anymore?”

I froze for a moment, then looked into Yara’s serious eyes.

I spent the night at the hospital with Yara, watching over her as she received an IV. By the next morning, her fever finally subsided.

I let out a breath of relief, holding her hand as we prepared to leave the hospital.

Just a few steps out of the door, we ran into Gavin at the corner.

Of course, Susan and her son were standing beside him.

As soon as Gavin saw Yara and me, his smile instantly stiffened.

In its place was an overwhelming panic.

He forced a smile and asked, “How is Yara? Has her fever gone down?”

When I didn’t answer immediately, he bent down to touch Yara’s head.

“Yara, tell Daddy, how are you feeling now?”

But this time, Yara took a large step back, coldly avoiding him. “When I was sick last night, where were you? Why didn’t you care about me?”

Gavin was stunned.

After all, Yara had never treated him so coldly before.

He clenched his jaw, and when he turned to look at me, his eyes burned with anger. “What have you been telling her?”

I slowly smiled, the corners of my mouth curling into a mocking grin. “Yara can make her own judgments. When she had a fever yesterday, where were you? Now you come here pretending to be the good father?”

The anger in Gavin’s eyes instantly faded.

He turned his head away, unable to look me in the eye. “I…”

Seeing Susan’s smug look, I responded flatly, “Since you like Gavin so much, then keep this piece of trash for yourself.”

“You!” Susan glared at me in anger.

Later that night, when Gavin returned home, he immediately started to yell at me.

“Can you change your attitude? I heard from Susan that after she went to find you to apologize, you not only didn’t appreciate it, but you even mocked her and said she killed her husband!”

“How can you be so venomous!”

I looked at the man in front of me, filled with righteous indignation, and felt nothing but coldness in my heart.

After years of being together, yet after a few words of malicious gossip, he easily believed all those slanders about me.

“Really? So you actually believe what she said?” I smiled calmly.

Seeing my expression, Gavin’s heart seemed to falter slightly, but he still stubbornly said, “Of course, she cried so hard. How could it be fake?”

Without saying another word, I opened the recording right in front of him.

Susan’s arrogant words were clearly audible to both of us.