Neal Williams felt his heart twist into a ball. He bent his head and patted her cold cheek painfully, “Andrea Jones, wake up!”
She was breathing heavily and did not wake up.
“Wake up! Andrea!” Neal Williams just felt every inch of his heart torment.
She woke up with a start and sat up from the bed in a flash, cold sweat all over her back.
“No! Don’t!” Her hands flailed wildly, waving away his touch. Heart aching, Neal Williams held her hand firmly and spoke worriedly, “Andrea Jones, it’s me! Look, it’s Neal Williams!”
It seems that this is a little bit awake, the eyes gradually have focus. Seeing that worried face, Andrea Jones heart of panic and anxiety immediately turned into aggression, without thinking, instinctively opened his arms and embraced her dependently.
She buried her head in the nook of his neck and sobbed, “Neal Williams, I’m so scared … I dreamed the baby was gone … Our baby is gone… …”
I could feel her body trembling lightly, Neal Williams heart ache like a needle. Hold the back of her head, hold her tighter, as if to convey his strength to her, “Good girl, do not be afraid … are only dreams! It’s just a nightmare, don’t scare yourself.”
“It was a dream, but … so real …” so real that it made her panic.
Neal Williams exhaled, “Don’t listen to Penny Brown’s nonsense! Our children will be fine!”
Andrea Jones shed all of her tears onto his neck. Embraced by him, her emotions quieted a little. However, the hands that held him did not relax for a moment.
Neal Williams sighed with pity, “Are you hungry? Sister Chen has made dinner, do you want to go out for some?”
She just buried her head in the crook of his neck and shook her head.
He nodded dotingly, “Good, then don’t eat for now. Lie down and sleep some more?”
She shook her head again and instead embraced him even tighter.
He froze slightly, really loving the feeling of being dependent on her, wrapped around her. If only, at the moment, she wasn’t in so much pain.
Neal Williams patted her back soothingly, coaxing her gently like a child, “It’s okay already, be good …”
Listening to his gentle reassurance, the fear in Andrea Jones’ heart gradually faded away. However, she also did not want to let go of him, just coveted leaning on his shoulder, smelling his breath, feeling his warmth.
That way, it reassures her.
Neal Williams looked serious, “Where does it hurt?”
She didn’t have a stiff upper lip to hide either, she just pinched her injury. He frowned, “Penny Brown hit you?”
“It wasn’t. Just a bump.”
“Let me see.”
Andrea Jones nodded. She was wearing a nightgown and could only watch as Neal Williams’ long, slender fingers picked open a button on her chest, leaving her shoulders exposed. The dark purple color surfaced on the pale skin, looking unusually harsh.
Neal Williams looked at her and said, “I’m sorry …”
He was the one who failed to protect her well.
Looking at him with a guilty look, she shook her head, “It’s not very painful.”
This is clearly comforting.
Neal Williams felt warm and touched her cheek, “Wait for me, a hot towel would be more comfortable.”
After saying that, he turned around and went into the bathroom. A moment later, pinched a hot towel out, covered her injury.
“How’s that? Does it hurt?” He carefully rubbed it with his palm, with just the right amount of force, as if he was afraid of hurting her again, always asking repeatedly.
Andrea Jones whispered, saying it didn’t hurt.
I only felt a warm current flowing down the shoulder injury, inch by inch seeping into the heart. The coolness just now, by this moment, has completely dispersed.
Penny Brown was sitting in the hall after a shower, flipping through the recent political section of the newspaper, and couldn’t help but think about Andrea Jones and how she was having Neal Williams’ baby, and just felt a blockage in her chest.
“Sis, the hair dryer.” Lewis Brown took the hair dryer out of the room for her, looked at her wet hair and jerked the newspaper out of her hand, “Don’t look, dry your hair first, you’ll get a headache sleeping like this.”
Penny Brown looked up at him and suddenly asked, “Lewis Brown, before you agreed to marry Olivia Scott just for the baby in her belly?”
Lewis Brown didn’t know why she suddenly brought this up, but he really didn’t have any interest in answering this topic. So, no sound, just bend over and plug in the hair dryer.
“Lewis Brown, you answer me.” Penny Brown grabbed his hand and pursued the question.
Sighing, Lewis Brown bent his head to look at her, “Isn’t the answer obvious?”
“You don’t love her at all?”
Lewis Brown had some bitterness in his heart and gave her a sullen look, only pursing his lips and returning briefly, “No love!”
“You don’t love her and are marrying her because she has a child, so if the woman you love has your child …”
“Marry her, naturally and unconditionally!” Lewis Brown took her words decisively, “Deeply in love, and with our child, what reason is there not to marry her?”
“So … what if it’s a family member who disagrees? Persistent opposition!”
“That’s not the reason.” Lewis Brown said again. Glancing sideways, he saw Penny Brown’s face stiffen a bit and he frowned slightly, “Why are you asking this all of a sudden?”
“No … nothing …,” she said, shaking her head in bewilderment.
“Is something wrong?” Lewis Brown continued to ask, frowning.
She stopped answering and just grabbed the hairdryer and blew it up. The noise rang in her ears, disturbing her even more restless. Is a child really that important to a man? If … did not have that child, what would be the result?
As she was thinking, Penny Brown’s cell phone rang abruptly. She did not respond for a while, so Lewis Brown reached for it for her, and when he saw the name displayed on it, he looked slightly frozen.
“Sister, it’s for you.”
Penny Brown then looked back and saw the name ‘Neal Williams’ and she frowned slightly.
So, what’s the status now that Andrea Jones has sued?
“Hello.” Still picking it up, he held the phone to his ear.
“It’s me.” His voice, unusually cold. It came through the airwaves, like a powerful storm surging into her heart. And then, only to hear his words continue mercilessly and cruelly: “Penny Brown, listen carefully – there will never be another possibility between me and you!”
With a single word, he added, “Don’t hurt her, or you’ll surely regret it!”
The last words were full of warning, which made Penny Brown shake hard. The hand holding the phone trembled vaguely as the heart was shocked.
The first thing I did was to open my lips to say something, but before I could say anything, Neal Williams at the other end had already hung up the phone categorically. The cold and mechanical sound of ‘beep beep beep’ came from the receiver, and she snapped back to her senses. … He called her, but it was just to ask for a warning!
Did he never have any feelings for himself? In the past, when he said he wanted to get engaged, it was also because of the request of the Williams family’s old man and old lady. So, what exactly does he take himself for?
When she was needed, she was used; when she was not needed, she was discarded like a piece of cake! Is this how Penny Brown is humiliated and played with by him?
Seeing her look different, Lewis Brown asked worriedly, “What’s wrong? What did brother-in-law say?”
Penny Brown returned to her senses and reluctantly grabbed her phone and threw it hard onto the couch. A hint of anger crossed her eyes as she gritted her teeth, “You say it’s impossible, I’m going to make it possible for us!”
Not returning Lewis Brown’s words, she boomed to her feet, “Mom, is Dad asleep?”
“Not yet, in the study. Something wrong?” Viona Hall asked as she stepped out of the bedroom.
Penny Brown ran for the study without looking back.
Viona Hall glanced at her son inquiringly, “What’s wrong with her? The whole thing is weird.”
Lewis Brown also turned to look thoughtfully at her back as she disappeared into the study and shook his head.
Steve Brown was talking to someone on the phone in his study, and when he saw his daughter enter without knocking, he asked with his eyes, and Penny Brown instantly got red and looked at him with eyes full of aggression.
Steve Brown now where is the heart to call people? He has only one precious daughter! He hung up the phone with someone and waved at her, “Come here! Who’s angry with you?”
Dad’s compassion was in stark contrast to the icy coldness of Neal Williams just now. She sniffled and said unapologetically, “Neal Williams! Dad, he’s a bully!”
Steve Brown frowned unhappily, “Why are you still angry with him?”
“Dad, what’s the situation with Wolfe Williams now?” She didn’t answer, but asked rhetorically.
Steve Brown said, “Someone is deliberately trying to screw him, and it’s not impossible for me to think of something here to keep things down.”
Penny Brown laughed coldly, “Our family has always been short in front of the Williams family, I never thought they would have this kind of time. I feel very happy when I see the Williams family talking to you in a polite manner.”
Steve Brown laughed uproariously, unable to hide the vanity of his heart.
“The officialdom is like this. The slightest movement of the wind can also set off layers of ripples.” Steve Brown looked at his daughter, “Why are you still concerned about this at night? I just said Neal Williams bullied you, but I haven’t told Dad to ask him yet!”
Penny Brown looked at her father, “Dad, then you help Wolfe Williams.”
Steve Brown was a little surprised, “Just now it was said that Neal Williams was bullying you, I thought you wanted me to be a bystander.”
“Help! There’s no reason not to help!” Penny Brown emphasized, “But, there are conditions!”
Steve Brown didn’t say anything, just waited for his daughter to continue.
“Let Neal Williams marry me!” Penny Brown said, “If the Williams family will agree to this condition, then, Dad, you can help; if not, Dad, you can do it even harder!”
Steve Brown doesn’t seem to agree with his daughter, “Penny, you need to think this through. As the old saying goes, a melon that is twisted by force is not sweet. Marriage is not a child’s play!”
Penny Brown’s eyes were moist again, “Dad, your daughter has already been abandoned by him once, and she has lost all her face. Wouldn’t you like to help me out? The Williams family, once this is over, will be the biggest political alliance between our two families, and even if someone tries to kick you out, they will not dare to do anything because of the Williams family!
Steve Brown mused and nodded.
“Okay, since you love him, then this request, Dad gave you!”
Penny Brown smiled, embraced Steve Brown, and nuzzled his face, “Dad, I’m counting on you!”
In fact, Neal Williams has Penny Brown to thank for what seems to be a change in Andrea Jones’ attitude towards himself since that day when Penny Brown made a scene.
She will not just know buried in a book, occasionally will talk with him. If he was busy late, she would quietly make him a glass of milk and put it in the living room.
Quiet and quiet, will not go to the study to disturb. However, the feeling of being able to drink Yuan Yuan’s milk as soon as he comes out late at night is sweet even to the heart.
This day, late at night, Neal Williams came out of the study after work and saw her still tapping away on the computer, looking serious and focused.
“Working on something?” Neal Williams asked, probing from behind to try to read the words on the screen.