Chapter 269: Chapter 269

Alaric Faulkner softly pleaded, "Eleanor, will you be my woman?"

Eleanor Sterling couldn’t meet his intense gaze. She turned her face away, biting her lip hard, scared that impulsively, she might say something that would corner herself.

The way things had developed between them, she had already foreseen it.

He said he could die for her, and she knew when he shielded her from harm.

Perhaps at the time, Alaric Faulkner just wanted to move her, after all, he had other ways, it wasn’t the only path.

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But it was this very impulsiveness that proved he wasn’t acting on a whim; he was serious, protecting her with his life.

He held his most sincere heart before her, forcing her to agree to be with him.

A light sigh escaped Eleanor Sterling’s lips.

She looked at Alaric Faulkner, who was inches away, for a long while before speaking, "Alaric Faulkner, I know you don’t despise me for having someone else’s child, but if the child’s father comes knocking, would you still not care?"

Alaric Faulkner chuckled softly, "No one can easily take away my woman."

Listening to his domineering words, Eleanor Sterling’s face was painted with helplessness.

"Your mother doesn’t seem to like me much, Faye Sterling bore Caleb Faulkner yet still can’t enter the house. I won’t maintain an abnormal relationship, I..."

Before Eleanor Sterling could finish her words, he blocked her mouth again, seemingly unwilling to hear these words.

Finally catching a breath, Eleanor Sterling pushed his head away, "Hey! If you want to talk, just talk, don’t touch me."

Shameless, utterly shameless.

Alaric Faulkner had such thick skin she could only say she admired it.

He reached out, touching her face, his voice hoarse, and said slowly, "Faye Sterling’s situation wasn’t what I hoped for.

I have taken responsibility in raising Caleb Faulkner. Eleanor, you can’t force me to be with a woman I don’t love."

Eleanor Sterling froze for a moment.

Indeed, just as Estelle Sterling wasn’t someone she intended to bring into this world, even though she did not regret it and raised him.

"As for my mother, she’s only become obstinate because of my father’s situation. What I want is you, and I don’t need anyone’s approval."

Eleanor Sterling was silent for a while.

She looked at Alaric Faulkner and said, "I’ll think about it."

After uttering these words, Eleanor Sterling calmed down.

It seems the paternity test results of Estelle Sterling and Jasper Faulkner need to be done quickly.

Seeing Eleanor Sterling’s attitude softening, Alaric Faulkner happily smirked, it seems he’s stepped into her heart.

At least Eleanor Sterling wasn’t outright rejecting him.

"Don’t press against me, get up!"

Alaric Faulkner murmured, "Let me hold you for a while."

She felt she had dug a pit for herself, allowing this shameless man to be more blatant in teasing her.

If she had known, she would have laid down the rules, but she felt even their forbidden relationship couldn’t restrain him.

Such rules, to him, might just be wind by the ear, heard and forgotten.

Against him, she was truly helpless.

Aethelgard Faulkner Family’s old mansion, in the living room.

Caleb Faulkner and Estelle Sterling sat on the sofa, standing before them were two boys of similar age.

The pair gazed disdainfully at Estelle Sterling, discontented as they spoke to Caleb Faulkner, "Caleb, why do you bring outsiders back to the Faulkner Family!"