She didn't want to look back on any of it. There was no point in bringing up the past anymore. "Lewis, that's enough. I don't want to hear about any of that. The past means nothing to me now!" Lewis was the one who shattered all those good memories, dragging them through the mud. Now he was picking up the pieces with dirty hands, and all he managed to do was stain every last memory. "If you called just to talk about this, I'm hanging up. Let's not waste our time." "Wait! I need to tell you something!" Lewis's voice turned desperate, a plea mixing with panic. He said, "It's about our child. I want to tell you everything I know." That stopped Athena in her tracks. A surge of fury welled up in her chest. Lewis actually had the nerve to bring up their child. If he hadn't lost his mind over Nina, they never would have lost track of their own child for so long. "Lewis, how dare you even mention our child?" Athena let out a cold, bitter laugh, her eyes burning as she gritted her teeth. "If you hadn't gotten obsessed with Nina's baby, you wouldn't have taken mine away from me, and I wouldn't have spent all those years separated from my baby. "Do you have any idea how I felt when I found out Dion was Nina's son? "I loved him like my own for seven whole years! "If you're just using this to get me to help you out of prison, you're talking to the wrong person." Athena figured this call was just another one of Lewis's manipulation schemes.She had no interest in hearing him out. The line fell silent, except for Lewis's ragged breathing. After a long pause, his voice was rough and low. "Athena, I'm not asking for your help. I know what I did was wrong, and now I'm paying for it. I'm sorry ... Athena, nothing I do can ever make up for what I've done. But there are things I want to tell you so you can find your child." Athena's frown deepened, suspicion rising inside her. She stayed silent, waiting for him to continue. Lewis spoke softly. "Come visit me tomorrow, and I'll tell you everything." Athena lost all patience. "I'm hanging up." She didn't want anything to do with Lewis anymore, much less go see him. There was no way she would do that. Just as Athena started to pull the phone away, she heard Lewis's urgent voice, "Athena, the man you slept with all those years ago wasn't me!" What? Athena quickly put the phone back to her ear. "What did you just say?" Lewis's voice sounded almost triumphant now. "Athena, you were drunk that night. I always told you I was the one who slept with you, but it wasn't me." Athena felt her entire body freeze, then heat surged to her head in a wave. Her mind buzzed. It wasn't Lewis? That was the night she got pregnant with Dion. If it wasn't Lewis, then who was it? "Lewis, if it wasn't you, then who was it?" Athena's voice shook.She could barely wrap her mind around the truth. Back then, she'd gotten pregnant after that night, and Lewis claimed responsibility. They got married because of the baby, and then Dion was born. "I was obsessed with Nina. She was pregnant, and I needed someone to raise her kid, so I lied and told you I was the one," Lewis admitted, his words slow and heavy. His tone was even, but his words hit Athena like a bomb. "Tell me who it was!" Athena's voice trembled. Just the thought of having slept with a stranger and then given birth to his child was almost too much to bear. How was this any different from being sexually violated? "Lewis, answer me!" Athena's voice grew shrill, her entire body shaking. She had searched for her child because she thought he was hers and Lewis's. But now, learning the child belonged to someone else—someone she didn't even know—made her question everything. Athena had no idea what to do. She needed to know who that man was. But her memories of that night were too hazy and distant. She couldn't even remember any of the details.