“Callum, wait!” Leila shouted urgently. “We are now in the hospital, can you come over here? For the last time!”
“Leila, I’m getting married next Saturday! I’ll send you an invitation! You and Mr. White are welcome to come to my wedding with Lennie!” Callum obviously didn’t want to know what they were doing in the hospital!
Leila was stunned for a moment!
“Bye!” And with that, the phone hung up!
In the operating room.
“Take off your trousers and lie down! Take it all off, and don’t be afraid as it is only a painless abortion within three minutes and it’ll be done soon!” The female doctor with the mask said mechanically with a frown.
Renee removed her trousers. “Take off your underpants too!”
Without wearing anything for her lower body, Renee laid on the special gynecological surgical bed with a surgical sheet covering her body and she was injected with anesthetic. Renee felt a little painful as the cold instruments entered her body in such a humiliating way.
Her hand clenched at her side with a line of tears slipping from the corner of her eyes. Baby, I’m sorry!
She didn’t know what the doctor had taken from her body as a hot current flowed out of her body and she seemed to fall asleep. Her mind turned unconscious for a few minutes until the doctor shouted, “Wake up! It’s done!”
Only then she opened her eyes and saw the doctor’s surprised eyes with her teary eyes, “Is it over?’
“It is over!”
At this moment, Renee felt the pain was unbearable from her fingertips to her heart as not only a life but her heart were flowing out of her body! And that heart which was riddled with holes was dead from now on!
Leila anxiously greeted and hugged Renee by the time she saw her bending over and walking out of the operating room while holding onto the wall. “Renee!”
“It’s all cleared!” Renee gave her a smile that was worse than crying.
Leila’s tears almost came out of her eyes. “Renee!”
“Let’s go!” Renee’s face was deathly pale and her body was shaking, but she shook her hands and held Leila’s hand, whispering, “I’m not afraid of anything! I’m fearless!”
Renee, what should I say about you?
Renee refused to go home so she asked the driver to drive her and Leila to the beach. She squatted on the beach alone while staring at the vast ocean, which made her burst into tears.
She said, “Leila, I have dreamt countless times that I wanted to have children with Callum and the boy looked like him while the girl looked like me! We would hold our hands together for the rest of our lives and become the lucky three!”
“Separated just like that?” Knowing how sad she must be, Leila mumbled and she dared not to ask Renee.
“Is he still worthy of my love? I won’t love such a bad rogue anymore! No way!” Renee almost roared like a lunatic!
“Renee! Cry over it and cheer up!” Leila could only say that.
Renee burst into hot tears,. Yes, she should have cheered up a long time ago! Youth, dream, love and lust had nothing to do with her and that man who had made her passionately fall in love, and now make her heartbroken, should go to hell!
I hate you, Callum! Forever and ever.
Renee was finally willing to go home after she was tired of crying.
After sending Renee away, Leila went back to the beach alone. Leila’s tears flowed out when she was at the place where she had just squatted with Renee.
Why was it so hard to love someone? Was it wrong to love someone? Was it wrong to love someone at the expense of a child? Why?
She looked up to the distant sea with her calm face but tears streaming down her face.
“Sir, Madam is crying alone by the beach!” The driver kindly called Vincent.
A Bugatti rushed ten minutes later. Vincent saw the tiny figure on the beach far away after he got the call and rushed here after leaving his work behind. She was crying! Was this little liar grieving for Renee?
When he walked near to her, she turned her head around just in time to meet his gentle eyes. “Why are you here?”
She turned her head quickly to wipe away her tears.
Vincent sat down beside her and reached out to wrap his hand around her shoulders. “I think you might need a shoulder right now! That’s why I’m here!”
Her heart raised a warmth but turned sad again as she rested her head on his shoulder, “Mr. White, what is happiness?”
He clasped her into his arms and she secretly opened her eyes while curling up in his arms. Just looking at his hands wrapping around her waist, her heart was filled with happiness which in turn made her feel a little uneasy.
His voice whispered in her ear, “To stay alive!”
To stay alive was happiness? Leila froze! Wasn’t it the case that two people loved each other in this life?
He took her hands and intertwined her ten fingers.
She stared blankly at his big bronze hands that intertwined with her small white hand tightly and she heard him say, “I’m not Callum! You aren’t Renee either!”
Her heart fluttered with fear and confusion as he said this. She turned sideways, lifting her eyes from his arms to meet his deep and dark eyes.
The look on his face was peaceful as if the words had not just been spoken by him.
“Mr. White…” She was a little speechless, not knowing how to say it.
“You are uneasy!” He said again. “You are insecure!”
He said these words seemingly without thinking and his hands that embraced her didn’t loosen in the slightest, one embracing her waist, and the other tightly intertwined with her small hand. At this moment, she was suddenly startled and just realized that perhaps this was the way he spoke out his promise.
Leila lowered her head but was then curled back into his arms. Suddenly, with a turn of his grip around her waist, her body was forced to turn and face him. He looked down at her and the sea breeze blew his hair away from his forehead, wild and unrestrained, yet, his face turned even more handsome that one couldn’t look directly at him and his burning breath made her blush.
“Don’t you trust me?” His voice was low and raspy.
She inclined her head slightly and her voice was close to a murmur, “I trust you, I’m just a little afraid that the happiness is too fragile!”
His large hand tightened even more warningly.
She immediately said, “Mr. White, I know I shouldn’t have thought about it! I believe that you will give me happiness!”
His lips, at last, curled up in satisfaction.
“Of course, I’m your man!”
“Yes! You are my man! The only man!”
Oh my God. Saying such lingering words of love in such an atmosphere, Leila’s face flushed uncontrollably and she would feel as if it was a tease.
As expected, she changed her flushed face to normal by the time he released her waist but his kiss landed on her lips. She snorted, trying to avoid his kiss but a strange feeling appeared all over her body.
Fortunately! He just kissed her. “Let’s go, the beach is windy!”
After that day, Leila went to visit Renee, and she was getting more and more emaciated as the blood flow didn’t stop even though she had used two extended sanitary napkins at one time.
Callum did what he said by sending Leila an invitation.
Miyamoto and Owen got along well recently and Owen had taken the initiative to live with Miyamoto.
Pippa was discharged from the hospital and no one knew where she had gone.
Charles called Vincent as he suddenly remembered what happened that day. “Vincent, I remembered that I don’t know the two people who tried to kidnap Leila that day, and you better tell your wife to be more careful as I don’t know how many men are thinking about her!”
So far, Vincent accompanied Leila every day, and even when she went out, he would arrange her a driver and a bodyguard who protected her by her sides.
On Saturday, Callum’s wedding was held in the HJ Hotel ballroom.
Leila took the invitation but she didn’t know whether she should go or not. Vincent looked down at the invitation and frowned, as if he had something to say.
Leila looked up at him. “Mr. White, do you think I should go?”
“Renee will go!” Vincent said in a deep voice.
“Then I’ll go too!” She hurriedly said. “Renee had just finished her surgery and can’t be stimulated, so I will definitely go and help her!”
A smile curled up on Vincent’s lips. “You are more devoted to her than you are to me!”
“No!” Leila swiftly denied.
“No?” He raised his eyebrows and gazed at her, and under his eyes, there was a special hint of affection.
Leila subconsciously avoided his gaze, “Can you go too? You are invited!”
“Hum! I’ll wait for you in the exclusive suite!” His tone was so ambiguous.
Leila blushed furiously and pouted, “Mr. White!”
On Saturday.
Leila wore a silver conservative dress to Callum’s wedding banquet as Vincent had forbidden her from too much of exposure. In fact, she looked prettier in a strapless dress, and it was just that the conservative one covered up her everything.
In the hotel building, Renee really came. She was unusually thin and frightening as there were only bones left covered her whole body. A purple strapless dress reflected her originally beautiful white face but emitted an aura that would make others feel vague as if she might be drifted away by the wind and disappear at any time.
At the entrance of the hall, Callum’s parents and Callum were waiting there to greet the guests.
Renee’s long hair was coiled up and she was wearing 9cm high heels on her feet, so enchanting and charming yet pitiful.
Facing each other, Callum looked at her and only spoke out one sentence, “Welcome!”
Renee smiled lightly but spoke to Callum’s parents, “Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. West!”
When they saw Renee, they didn’t think about anything but just took her hand, “Renee, why do you turn to be so thin suddenly?”
Renee only smiled, “Skinny is quite popular recently! Mr. and Mrs. West, I’m going in, congratulations again!”
“Renee!” Callum’s expression stiffened a little.
Renee walked up to him and raised her face. Her eyes were dull but then she gave him a bright smile. “Callum, congratulations on your happy wedding! Have a precious son soon!”
There was like a thorn in her throat when she spoke out the words ‘precious son’.
Leila was by her side all the time, knowing that she was heartbroken, yet, she still forced a smile on her face.
Callum didn’t say anything in the end but just looked at her with different expressions of sadness.
Leila, Vincent and Renee were sitting at a table in the ballroom. Leila was besides Renee and Vincent had come to accompany Leila because he was worried about her.
The pianist played the wedding march and the hall which was decorated with pink roses was filled with friends and relatives from the Wests and the Newmans. Lennie took the arm of her father, Secretary Newman and walked towards Callum who was standing in front of her in a classic dress.