Chapter Twenty-three

"I told him your twins belong to me and he was more than happy. He said he would come meet you. . ."

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When Anne got home, she was so shaken, she couldn't even answer when her grandmother asked her how her night went.

Her heart pounded in her chest as she traversed the road to the bakery without muttering so much as a word to anyone.

She unlocked the bakery and went straight to work immediately, deciding to cater to her early customers. When she was done with them, she immersed herself into her work and made several batches of baking which could last for days before putting each in the display box.

Close to an hour later, there was almost nothing else left to and with no one else around, she had nothing but her thoughts to occupy her.

Her heart skipped a beat again when she recalled what Asher had said.

Somehow he had realized the paternity of her children and had told his father. Maybe he had heard rumors and planted a private detective on her. Her eyes watered.

Her deepest fea