Of course, Alice knew it was the child she had given birth to, and so she did not want him to suffer with her.
She would have liked to have Jack with her immediately if she could, she was so lonely now and needed warmth.
But what would happen after she picked up Jack?
Letting this child watch his mother’s emotional breakdown every day?
That would be too selfish.
At the thought, Alice closed her eyes and shook her head.
-Yanis, turn off the video call and don’t let him call back.
-Alice!
-Turn it off! -Alice’s voice rose in pitch and she looked up, staring at Jack on the video, gritting her teeth, -Jack listen, mom forbids you to call back, you have to study hard and when mom finds your dad, she’ll pick you up then.
Jack kept looking at her with tears in his eyes.
-I don’t want to, I want to go with you now, I don’t want daddy, I just want mommy.
Yanis continued to hold her cell phone and the sound of her baby’s cries never ceased to surround her.
Alice reached up with a grimace, turned off the video and tucked Yanis’ phone under her pillow in the process.
-Alice? You’ve gone too far! He’s your own son.
-So what, that’s why you told him to call me? Yanis, you know what state I’m in, what do you want me to tell him?
Alice’s eyes looked at Yanis a little hollow, Yanis breathed, -I don’t want you to tell him anything either, he just knows, Jack is very upset, you are his mother….. He wants to see you, and he wants to talk to you, he misses you, what’s wrong with that?
-There wouldn’t have been any problem, but I’m in bad shape and I don’t want to see anyone.
She didn’t want to take all the negative energy from herself to Jack, although it was cruel that Jack wouldn’t talk to her, but what could she say if she talked to him? If Jack found out about that incident, the boy would definitely pursue the matter, and how could she explain it to him then?
-Are you going to stay like this if Kennedy doesn’t come back? Jack is just a kid, he doesn’t understand you like adults do, do you understand that?
Alice didn’t want to talk to her anymore and, annoyed, looked away from her face and said coldly, -I know, you go out.
-Alice… -Yanis, still undeterred, said Alice’s name and sat on the edge of the bed, not wanting to leave.
-Well, I want you to leave me alone.
Seeing that Yanis was still sitting on the edge of the bed, refusing to leave, Alice had no choice but to lie down and cover herself with the sheets so as not to disturb Yanis anymore.
Yanis had to gather her things and get up to leave the room.
Megan looked at her with a surprised face, -What’s wrong? I thought I heard you two arguing.
-Don’t mention it, it makes me angry to talk about it.
Megan was curious, -Why are you angry at this juncture? I’d be interested to know.
-You said Jack is just a five or six year old boy who misses his mother and wants to tell her something, that’s normal isn’t it? But what about Alice, she actually told Jack not to call her again, it was heartbreaking for me to watch, the boy was crying so much and she didn’t even care.
Megan smiled helplessly and patted Yanis’ shoulder, gently explaining, -You’ve never been a mother, so you don’t know what it’s like to be one.
-I know Alice is bitter inside, but Jack is so little, why can’t she say a few words in disguise?
-Have you ever thought that maybe Alice doesn’t want to deceive him? If Alice has no means to deceive her son, then when she talks to him, what do you think they talk about, what would Jack ask?
At the words, Yanis froze, it didn’t seem to have occurred to her.
-You haven’t thought of this at all? -Megan smiled, with a light expression, and continued, “It’s just that you’re too young to think about a lot of things from both sides. Of course, I know Jack wants to see his mom right now, and that’s no excuse, but think how bad these things Alice has been going through lately have made her feel, it will take time for her to get back to her old self. How can you tell Jack that something may have happened to his dad? To say too much would be rubbing salt in her own wounds, you know what I mean.
Yanis managed to choke on these words, thinking for a long time without coming up with anything to reply, and his lips twitched as he looked at Megan in a tangled way.
Half the time she seemed to be thinking clearly, -And what should I do? I just took the video call to her and I thought Alice didn’t want to worry about her son.
-It doesn’t matter, aren’t you two good friends and sisters? This matter is clear in Alice’s mind, only she is not in the mood to comfort you now, or to explain this to you in detail wait until this bout of grief has passed ah in talking about this matter, you will both be relieved.
Yanis stared at Megan in front of her, and for the first time she found the woman in front of her very attractive. He had heard that Megan loved Zain before, but in the end this woman did not get his heart, and then she married someone else.
In the presence of Zain, Megan did not seem the least bit ashamed, as if she had never liked the man.
Such an outstanding woman had failed to capture Zain’s attention, so what about Yanis?
-What’s the matter? Look at your face as if you still had doubts.
Yanis hesitated to ask Megan how she felt at that moment, and in the process, if she had confessed her feelings to Zain.
But people were already married and had children now, so it was very insensitive of him to ask such questions now, wasn’t it?
Thinking about it, Yanis shook her head, -Nothing.
The girl didn’t hide her emotions and put it all on her face. Although she herself said it was nothing, that expression had something wrong with it at first glance.
Megan was much older than Yanis and looked at her as if she was her own sister, so she smiled helplessly at that moment and pulled Yanis to sit in a nearby chair.
-If you have something to say, say it, don’t keep it to yourself. I am older than you and I have experienced many things. If you have questions, you can ask me, I can’t give you very good answers, but there’s nothing wrong with helping you relieve yourself.
Megan was like an older sister who knew what Yanis would do, her voice was warm and clear and gave Yanis a very close feeling.