---- Chapter 20 Dean kept his word and wholeheartedly fulfilled his responsibilities as a father over the following week. He adhered to a strict schedule, picking up Amy from home and dropping her off at school every day. Amy was overjoyed, constantly calling out "Dad" with glee. On the seventh day, after they had the last dinner together, Dean drove Erin and Amy back home. "You promised that you would disappear from my world forever from now on." He reminded Erin. Erin nodded. "I'll leave with Amy this evening." On the way back, Dean's heart suddenly started pounding heavily. Seven days had passed, and he couldn't wrap his mind around it. Erin feared the rumors at Amy's kindergarten might hurt Amy, so why didn't she just transfer her directly? Why did she insist on completing acting for the whole week before agreeing to transfer Amy to another kindergarten? As he pondered this, a car behind him suddenly rammed into ---- his. The two cars collided. Dean had barely stepped out of his car when someone grabbed him by the throat from behind. The intense feeling of suffocation made his face turn crimson. The man behind Dean was tall and said in a cruel tone, "Pretty boy, you dare let my daughter call you Dad. Who do you think you are? I'll kill you!" The moment a knife plunged into his abdomen, Dean suddenly understood Asher's cryptic words. All of Erin's odd behavior in recent days made sense. Erin had indeed divorced once abroad, but her ex-husband was not that student. It was with a ruthless man, Hugh Collins. Though the student loved Erin, he couldn't abandon his family in order to marry her. When she was left abandoned on foreign streets, she met Hugh. He was good at deception and used his familiar accent to deceive Erin, who was vulnerable back then. Erin almost drowned in the gentleness he had displayed. So she married him without hesitation. ---- But three months into the marriage, Hugh revealed his brutal nature. Erin endured beatings, stayed in the cold of foreign winters, and was publicly humiliated as she was led out on a leash. She had been pushed to her limits by that life of torment. When Hugh committed murder during another conflict, she took his money and fled back home without hesitation. After that, she discovered that she was pregnant with Hugh's baby. Coincidentally, her childhood friend, Dean, appeared before her. She set him up by getting him drunk one night. Afterwards, she pretended to be aggrieved and suggested they forget everything. Then she secretly fled to a small village in the south to give birth to Amy. Three years later, she returned to Bexwell with Amy. Naturally, Dean thought he was Amy's father. She leveraged Dean's compassion and guilt to climb to the point of discussing marriage. But Eliana ruined everything. ---- Erin wasn't as lucky as Eliana, who had a brother who supported her unconditionally. Just when Hugh was released from prison and returned to the country, she received a message that nearly made her heart stop beating. However, she quickly calmed down and realized that she was not abroad. Murder was illegal, and a murderer would rot in jail. Thus, she orchestrated this elaborate act of sacrificing Dean's life to secure her own safety for the rest of her life. Yet she never expected that when she was ready to flee, someone would find her before Hugh did. Discover our latest featured short drama reel. Watch now and enjoy the story!