The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 142 - 123, The truth is so unbearable

Chapter 142: 123, The truth is so unbearable

This would be the first official collaboration between Ivy Aretha and Alya Larson in history, and their relationship was quite awkward – one being the Chairman’s destined fiancée, and the other being the CEO’s public girlfriend.

After experiencing Michael Gordon’s drama last time, Alya had smartened up and changed her attitude. No one mentioned the words "future CEO’s Wife" anymore.

The road to the suburb was relatively far away. Since all the legal department’s drivers were sent out, they eventually decided that Alya would drive and they would go by themselves.

Unexpectedly, just as they stepped out of the gate, they were stopped by a familiar figure guarding the place.

The way was blocked!

"Ivy Aretha, you stop right there!"

The disheveled man in front of them stopped their way. Ivy looked up and realized that the man was Zach Gilbert. He was wearing a messy black coat, and the sweater underneath seemed to have been torn apart. His face was pale, and his chin was covered with stubble.

The whole person looked like a wandering vagabond indulging in a wanton life, far different from the elegant Young Master Zach in ordinary days.

"Zach Gilbert, what happened? How did you become like this?"

They hadn’t seen each other for a while and this man had become a mess. Could it be that the Gilbert family was bankrupt? Otherwise, she couldn’t think of why a man as confident as Zach would end up like this.

Having been in a relationship before, she knew best what kind of person he was – someone who loved himself more than anyone else?

She really couldn’t imagine what had happened!

Zach didn’t answer Ivy’s question, but just opened his arms and blocked both Ivy and Alya. His eyes, which had sunk due to his decadence, stared straight into Ivy’s eyes with intense focus, as if to see through her.

His excessive focus caused Ivy’s pores to stand on end, even Alya couldn’t help but take a few steps back. This man’s expression was terrifying!

"If you don’t want to talk, don’t stand in our way. We have urgent matters to..." Before she could finish her sentence, a voice from the other side interrupted her.

"Ivy Aretha, is the child Michael Gordon’s?"

Zach almost shouted these words using all his strength. The loud voice almost alarmed the security guard at the gate, who was quickly waved off by Alya before they could react.

"I’m asking you, is Bianca the child of you and Michael Gordon?" Zach seemed to have gone mad, his hands gripping Ivy’s shoulders and shaking her fiercely. "You tell me, weren’t you raped by a stranger? How could you have Michael Gordon’s child?"

Alya, scared by his words, covered her mouth with her hand to stop herself from screaming out loud.

Ivy Aretha had a child? And it was Michael Gordon’s seed?

Alya’s entire body froze in place, and the wall of self-deception she had built up all along suddenly collapsed.

"Tell me, tell me it’s not true!"

Zach pleaded with Ivy with disbelieving eyes. As he spoke, his voice became almost a whisper, "Tell me it’s not true!"

He had spent so much effort to come out of the guilt at the time when he proposed the breakup, thinking that she was really raped. How could he, a high and mighty person, accept that his woman was insulted by others?

So he chose to break up and abandon her.

But all these years, he had been condemning his conscience for abandoning her at her most difficult time.

This pain was eased when he met her again, so he divorced Yuri Sanders. He finally became a divorced man who is not clean anymore, so he no longer despised her for being tainted.

Even if she had a child, he didn’t mind, because he still loved her!

But the truth was telling him that the child was not the rapist’s but Michael Gordon’s. How could he accept this news!

He blamed himself for his cruel heart for so many years, but in the end, he was the one who had been cruelly betrayed. They even had a child together, and he was still playing the role of the infatuated man who wanted to turn back.

He was really dreaming!

"Ha, ha ..."

Zach suddenly burst into a wild laugh. The sharp, bone-chilling laughter spread out under the warm winter sun, spreading boundlessly ......

If Yuri Sanders hadn’t mistakenly thought that Bianca was his child with Ivy and plotted against her, would he still be delusional enough to compete with Michael Gordon for his child?

"Zach Gilbert, don’t be like this!"

This was the first time Ivy had seen him so out of control since they had known each other. Even when she had confessed to him about losing her innocence, he had only slapped her in anger. But today, she seemed to see a strange, desperate expression on his face.

Hearing her words, Zach nodded continuously, still wearing that hollow smile with a heavy touch of sarcasm, as if he had seen through the joke of his own life – cold and bone-chilling.

She didn’t answer his question, meaning she didn’t deny it. The child was Michael Gordon’s!

"Yes, I shouldn’t be like this. I shouldn’t have been bothered by the woman who betrayed me six years ago!"

Zach spoke while nodding to himself, then walked a few steps, suddenly turned back, looked sharply at Ivy, and spoke one word at a time. "Since Bianca wasn’t killed by a car accident, you let Michael Gordon let Yuri Sanders go, and let’s call it even for what you did to me years ago!"

"Bianca is Michael Gordon’s child, that’s true, but it has nothing to do with me betraying you back then!"

The matter from back then had always been a thorn in her heart. So, when she heard the word "betrayal," Ivy’s blood boiled instantly, causing her to overlook his words about letting Michael Gordon let Yuri Sanders go.

"Zach Gilbert, at that time, I told you everything honestly when it happened. Back then, I didn’t even know Michael Gordon, so it’s not up to you to label me as a betrayer now!"

If Zach hadn’t insulted her at that time and had stayed by her side when she was most vulnerable, she might have chosen not to give birth to Bianca. Of course, she was fortunate to have found out that she was pregnant after they broke up!

That’s why she had this child!

Otherwise, giving up such a lovely daughter for this man would have been a loss for her ...... Wait!

What did she just say...

"Zach Gilbert, what did you say? What do you mean by letting Michael Gordon let Yuri Sanders go? What happened to Yuri Sanders?"

A bad feeling suddenly gripped her entire body – did Michael Gordon deal with Yuri Sanders?

Does that mean... that the last car accident with Bianca was not an accident... but man-made?

Suddenly, Ivy stared at Zach with her pupils dilating to the extreme, and the voice that came out of her mouth was full of frightened horror. "Zach Gilbert, explain to me clearly?!"