FreeGoodNovelChapter 68
Chapter 12
Lucas's hands trembled as he clutched the DNA results, his voice breaking into a low growl.
"Nancy! You... you lied to me! All this time, Ciara wasn't mine?!"
"You trickedinto this! You letbelieve | was her father, and it was all a lie!"
Nancy's face went ghostly pale. She tried to explain, her voice shaking.
"Lucas, listen! It's not what you think! Jacky forced me. | had no choice! You're the only one | love. You have to
believe me!"
But Lucas had had enough.
Blinded by rage, he jumped into his car and slammed his foot on the gas.
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The tires screeched as he sped toward Nancy, who stood frozen in terror.
"Lucas, no! Stop!"
She barely had tto scream before the car hit her, sending her flying into the air and crashing down with a
sickening thud. Blood splattered everywhere.
Lucas, still consumed by fury, didn't stop there. He reversed the car, then sped forward again, driving over
Nancy's body.
Her arms twitched grotesquely as her body bled out, but Lucas kept shouting, "Die! You bitch! You lied to me,
and now you'll pay for it!"
Even as Nancy's broken form lay motionless beneath the car, Lucas kept screaming, slamming the car back and
forth over her lifeless body.
| turned away from the gruessight, my face emotionless.
"Call the police," | told the driver quietly.
That night, Lucas was arrested after trying to flee the scene.
The next morning, | signed the final divorce papers and left the city, never intending to return.
At the state hospital, Cody had finally woken up, his soft voice calling for me.
As | held him in my arms, tears streamed down my face.
Cody, trying to comfort me, reached up to wipe my tears.
"Mom, who was that man? The one who yelled a lot?"
| smiled through my tears and glanced at Ryan.
"That was your uncle. And look, out in the hall, your grandparents are here, too."
"Remember how you said you wished you had grandparents like the other kids? Well, you do! And they love you
very, very much." Cody's face lit up with a big smile.
"Really? That's awesome! I'll be a good boy so they'll like me!"
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My parents cin, along with Ryan, all of them reaching out to hold Cody's hand.
"We'll be waiting for you to get better!"
For the first tin this life, | felt the weight lift off my chest. | had saved Cody.
As for Lucas, his fate was sealed.
A few weeks later, | read about his trial in the criminal news.
After fleeing the scene, Lucas had gone to the hospital to find Jacky. In a fit of madness, he had bludgeoned him
to death with a metal chair.
Jacky's daughter, Ciara, had been in the shospital, but Lucas couldn't bring himself to harm her.
In the end, after hours of wandering the hospital halls, he had jumped from a window to his death.
I closed the news article without a flicker of emotion.
From that moment on, Cody and | would start a new life together, surrounded by family and free from the ghosts
of the past.
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