He Stole Me From My Deadbeat Husband-Chapter 442

"Katherine, please..." Henry finally murmured. His casual act began to crack when he realized that Kate kept staring at him with that cold gaze as if she was ready to kick him out herself.

"This is for our baby. Do you know how worried I am? You’re probably only a few days before going into labor. I can’t leave you alone," Henry said.

...

Kate said nothing but began to feel the love and hatred brewing in her heart, making a poisonous mix that only corroded her heart even more.

Her eyes began to pool with tears as she kept staring at that pair of desperate and vulnerable emerald eyes.

"Katherine..."

"Chloe, Vernon, I will have to return to my room now. I have something to talk to with him," Kate said.

"No need. You two can talk here. We will wait outside," Vernon said. He grabbed the remote and turned off the home theater.

They got up and left. Chloe was worried that something might happen if they left Henry and Kate alone, but she couldn’t do much when Vernon firmly pulled her out of the home theater and closed the door.

Kate and Henry stared at each other for a long time, no words came out of their mouths, but their eyes were communicating with the same notion that didn’t change.

Henry was desperate, wanting to be with Kate, wanting to protect her. He couldn’t spend another second not knowing the fate of his beloved.

"Katherine, please let me stay by your side until you give birth to our baby. I don’t want you to suffer alone," Henry said. His voice began to get shaky as he tried his best to control his emotions. He slowly reached Kate’s belly and caressed it, "I promised you that I will protect our son."

Kate grabbed Henry’s hand and brushed it off, forbidding him to caress her belly, "This baby is mine, Henry. You have lost the right to call yourself a father since the day you wanted to give it to Marlon in exchange for wealth and power."

Henry truly regretted his actions back then.

He was blinded with rage, grief, and desperation. He lost his way when two of the most important people in his life were suddenly taken away from him, and Sarah’s words only made things worse.

He became a monster that followed Sarah’s words without question, taking her poisonous statements as the truth.

"I already told you many times about my position back then, so I won’t repeat myself, Katherine," Henry said. He gently held Kate’s hand and asked, "But I want redemption. I am begging for your forgiveness. Is there a way for me to make up for everything?"

Kate looked down, staring at their hands, and she couldn’t help but shed tears again.

She remembered how he held her hands when they first met. They got drunk together and told their life stories.

Henry held her hand before he made his advance. It was the warmest and gentlest touch she had experienced from a man.

She was washed by grief, lust, and desperation.

That night, she became a completely different person. She became her true self, a vulnerable woman who wanted to be loved because she had never been loved in her life before.

Everyone never loved her, but they needed her.

But this man didn’t need her, but he was willing to touch her that night.

"Why are you doing this to me, Henry?" Kate murmured. "Why can’t you just leave me alone? You’re opening my wound again..."

"Because I’m selfish," Henry replied. "I can’t bear to part with you. I will go crazy, Katherine."

"Do you think parting with you is easy for me?" Kate shook her head. "I am also hurting, Henry. I... I love you. Just because I know the truth doesn’t mean my love for you will suddenly disappear."

Henry’s eyes widened, he tightened his hand around Kate’s and said, "T—then, let’s start anew and—"

"But staying with you hurt me even more," Kate said. "Staying with you reminds me of all of my failures in the past. I trusted my mother, Matt, his mother, and Erin, yet all betrayed me. I put all my love and trust into you, yet you keep hiding the truth from me repeatedly until I have to know it this way."

"Katherine..."

"Henry, I love you, and if that selfishness in your heart still wants more, then I will be honest, I will never fall in love with another man after you," Kate said. "You are the last man I fall in love with because now I realize I’m not worthy of any man’s true love. All of you simply want to use me or play with my heart."

"I—I am not going to play with your heart! I changed my mind a long time ago!" Henry said. He put Kate’s palm on his chest where his heart was beating and said, "Katherine, feel my heartbeat. Can you feel how fast it beat?"

Kate nodded.

"I... I am nervous yet excited at the same time. I keep dreaming about you, to the point that my heart will beat faster every time I see your face, even in my dream," Henry uttered everything that he had been experiencing these days. He had never been so in love with a woman before to the point that he might die because of it.

Of course, Kate would melt when Henry said such a sweet thing. She wasn’t a strong lady when it came to love.

She was weak to physical touch, even weaker when the man she loved uttered how desperately he loved her.

Yet, at the same time, her heart kept on denying it.

Not because she didn’t believe in Henry. Everything about him already confirmed that Henry was true to his words. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

But because she was too afraid to give her everything for Henry, only to be betrayed again. Her heart had been shattered into pieces, and even if he glued it back, the cracks would never disappear.