Chapter 3

The very next morning, Chloe flew out to Hawaii with Mason and the three boys for a luxury vacation.

While they were living it up, my soul snapped back into my physical shell. Thanks to the doctors' emergency intervention, I opened my eyes.

The whole ordeal felt like a horrific nightmare until I saw Chloe's TikTok location tagged in Maui.

The two parasites were charging everything to my black credit card. Alert after alert lit up my phone with five-figure hotel bills and shopping sprees. They truly saw me as an infinite cash machine.

I didn't lift a finger to interrupt their little paradise.

My heart was completely dead to Chloe. My only goal now was to cut these leeches out of my life for good.

"Mason, that trip was pure magic! And I used a pregnancy test. It's positive!"

"Let's pray for twins so you can cash in that $100,000 bonus."

Laughter and chatter drifted in from the foyer.

Back from their getaway, Chloe and Mason pushed the front door open, walking in arm-in-arm.

"L-Logan?" Chloe froze when she saw me sitting quietly on the living room sofa. She genuinely believed I was still comatose in a hospital bed.

"Don't get the wrong idea, Logan. Chloe was exhausted, so I was just helping her balance," Mason said smoothly, shifting his grip from an embrace to a supportive hold.

Watching them put on their practiced show made me sick to my stomach. I blamed myself for being so trusting, blind to their betrayal for six whole years!

The three boys chased each other loudly into the room. Knowing they carried another man's blood, every ounce of warmth I once felt evaporated. Their giggles just sounded like grating noise.

"Logan, I have wonderful news! I'm pregnant again!"

Chloe perched on the cushion next to me as if nothing had happened, taking my hand and guiding it to her belly.

"I gave you three handsome boys, but I really hope this one is a girl..."

"You promised me $50,000 for each baby. How about transferring the funds now?"

"Mason found a house he loves, and he needs cash for the down payment. He's sacrificed so much helping our family all these years."

I let out a cold sneer. "He certainly helped. He helped father three sons with you. Must've been exhausting work."

"Logan! What are you talking about?! He's my stepbrother..."

I whipped out all three DNA reports and threw them straight into her face. "You two put on a hell of an act for six years. Sleeping together under my roof. Truly pathetic."

Chloe picked up the papers and skimmed them, looking mildly startled.

"Wait, all three belong to Mason? I honestly thought at least one of them was yours."

"Oh well, it's better this way anyway. Mason is tall and handsome. The boys will look much better taking after him than you."

Mason joined in with a magnanimous tone.

"Logan, don't take it so hard. We only called each other stepbrother and stepsister to protect your fragile ego."

"I really had no idea all three were mine either. Don't worry, I won't take them away from you. They can keep your last name."

"Once they finish college and get jobs, you can hand them back to me. We'll split their lives. Twenty years for you, twenty years for me."

Chloe chimed in without missing a beat.

"And don't you dare accuse me of cheating! Mason is the love of my life, and you're my rock, my safe harbor. Different things entirely! If anything, you should thank him for upgrading your family's gene pool. With your 5'7" height, our kids would have turned out looking like hobbits without his help."

The two of them actually chuckled together, treating the destruction of our marriage like an everyday joke.

Splitting their lives twenty years each?

Disgust rose in my throat!

They wanted me to drain my bank account raising another man's sons, only for them to take care of him when he got old?

Did they think I was a total idiot?

I had stored up an ocean of fury to confront them with, but seeing their shameless faces, I realized words were completely wasted on them.

Exhausted down to my bones, I pulled a signed divorce agreement out of my briefcase and dropped it in front of Chloe. "Sign it."