Beaten up like this and not sent to the hospital, really won’t anything happen?
Just as Christine White was thinking so fearfully, the cell phone in her pocket suddenly buzzed.
Christine White pushed her worries down for the moment, glancing at Baird Lane and tucking him in before pulling out her cell phone and heading to the balcony.
The phone call was from the old man, she didn’t dare to delay and hurriedly put it to her ear to answer, “Grandpa.”
“O Christine, Baird is back, isn’t he?” The old man’s kind voice came.
Christine White hmmm’d, “He’s back, are you looking for him Grandpa?”
“No, I’m not looking for him, he’s probably not even awake at this hour.” The old man said smilingly, with no hint of concern for Baird Lane in his tone.
Christine White silently mentally sympathized with Baird Lane before biting her lip and asking, “Grandpa called specifically for me?”
“Yeah, Grandpa was trying to apologize to you.”
“Apologize?” Christine White cocked her head.
The old man sighed, “For that asshole grandson of mine, all those things he did, grandpa knew about them, so grandpa felt a bit sorry for you Christine ah, it’s grandpa who didn’t teach him well.”
“No.” The tip of Christine White’s nose was sore, and she fought back the urge to cry and hastily said, “It’s not your fault, Grandpa, you don’t have to apologize to me.”
“Still, I’m the one who didn’t take precautions sooner, and if I’d gotten that woman from The Bort Family away from Baird sooner, none of this might have happened either.” At that, the old man thumped his chest in a fit of regret.
Christine White choked back a sob, “Grandpa, don’t beat yourself up like that, it’s all in the past …”
“It’s in the past, but I can’t let go of it in my heart, pity my great-grandson who died before he was born.” The old man said sorrowfully.
Christine White subconsciously touched up her belly and her heart ached.
“Christine ah, the matter of your divorce, grandpa has also seriously considered it.” The old man’s tone suddenly became serious when he said this.
Christine White hurriedly focused herself as well, “Grandpa, do you agree?”
“I agree, it’s us, The Bort Family, who are sorry for you, letting you waste three years of your youth for nothing not to mention letting you end up with injuries, this old face of mine has been disgraced.” The old man covered his face with one hand and said with great emotion.
Christine White lowered her head and huffed softly, not answering.
The old man heard her crying and the shame in his heart increased, “Christine ah, do you blame grandpa? If I hadn’t chosen you in the first place and let you marry Baird, you wouldn’t have gone through all this.”
“No blame!” Christine White hastily shook her head, “I don’t blame you Grandpa, this is all my own choice, three years ago I signed up for the Bride Election of my own free will, and when I got married, you gave me the chance to back out of it, so none of this is your fault Grandpa.”
“That being said, I, The Lane Family, have ultimately wronged you.” The old man sighed.
Christine White rubbed her eyes sore from crying, “Grandpa, don’t you blame me?”
She asked rhetorically.
The old man raised his eyebrows, “Why do you say that?”
“Because I initiated the divorce.” Christine White replied in a whisper.
She didn’t know enough about the mansion, but after all, she had married into The Lane Family for three years, and there were some things she knew, and many of the mansions couldn’t accept a daughter-in-law from a very low family to initiate a divorce.
Because in their eyes, that is a provocation to them, contempt for them, in their eyes, you a woman of ordinary family background, to be able to marry into their family, is already a phoenix on the branch, and still have the face to mention divorce?
That’s why she has such concerns now.
The old man had experienced decades of storms, naturally he read a lot of meanings from Christine White’s short sentence, and couldn’t help but smile, “Christine ah, don’t worry, although The Lane Family doesn’t have a precedent of divorce, much less a precedent of a daughter-in-law taking the initiative to propose a divorce, but we The Lane Family people are all still very reasonable, not to mention that these things, themselves, are our The Lane Family’s fault.”
Hearing this, Christine White’s lifted heart fell and she breathed a soft sigh of relief, “I know Grandpa, thank you for all the love and care you’ve shown me over the past three years, I’m so sorry I failed you and didn’t allow you to hold your great-grandchildren.”
“This thing, this is probably fate.” The old man laughed bitterly, and then asked, “By the way, when do you plan to get a divorce, if Baird doesn’t agree, you tell my old man, and old man I’ll step in to make him agree.”
“Just for a couple days.”
“So soon?” The old man frowned.
Christine White looked up at the sky with confused eyes, “Well, I’m afraid that if I put it off long enough, I’ll be too hard on myself.”
After all, she still loves Baird Lane in her heart, and loves him a lot.
Even after this, she was only disappointed in him, but did not diminish the love in her heart.
That’s why she desperately wanted a divorce, just in case she stayed long enough to let it all go, she didn’t want that to happen or she’d be sorry for her poor child!
“I know, then you’ll let the old man know when it’s time.” The old man let out another sigh.
Christine White nodded, “I will.”
The call ended and her arm dropped feebly, the phone slipping down her palm and falling to the floor with a pop.
But she did not bother, but fell on the pole rail and cried loudly, crying not only mixed with relief, but also mixed with a full of reluctance.
She didn’t really want the divorce that much, that much to get out of Baird Lane.
But seeing Baird Lane defend Molly Bort in that way, she’d realized once and for all that between them, she couldn’t get in between them, that she was in two worlds altogether with them.
What’s more, she no longer expects to make Baird Lane fall in love with her because he knows it’s impossible, he only has Molly Bort in his heart, and even if she waits for a few more years, he won’t necessarily fall in love with her, so she might as well just leave it at that.
Thinking about this, Christine White’s crying gradually stopped, and she slowly wiped her tears and stood up, waiting for her mood to calm down a little before she turned around and went back to her room, continuing to take care of Baird Lane.
When she had just helped him change, there was a sudden knock at the door.
“Ma’am.”
It’s Aunt Lucy.
Christine White dropped Baird Lane’s dirty clothes on the floor and walked over to open the door, “Aunt Lucy, what can I do for you?”
“Here’s mister’s medicine, I forgot to bring it up earlier.” Aunt Lucy pulled out a large bag from behind her.
Christine White picked it up and looked at it a little, “That much, huh?”
“It’s all bandages, ma’am, you know that mister is so badly injured, every time you change the medicine, you have to wrap a lot of bandages.” Aunt Lucy said back.
Christine White nodded slightly as she recalled the injuries she had seen on Baird Lane, “That’s true, but Aunt Lucy, do you know what Grandpa hit him with?”
“What else could it be, a horsewhip.” Aunt Lucy shrugged her shoulders.
Christine White exclaimed, “Horsewhip?”
“Yes, Master has a horsewhip that was passed down from The Lane Family’s ancestors, specifically to beat The Lane Family’s children and grandchildren, and I remember I told you before, ma’am, that Mister was also beaten by Master with a horsewhip three years ago.”
Christine White’s eyes flickered, remembering.
Aunt Lucy did say that, only she didn’t think of it for a moment.
“Well ma’am, I’ll leave you to take care of mister, I’ll go downstairs first.” Aunt Lucy pointed downstairs.
Christine White looked back and nodded slightly, “Good.”
She’s not divorced from Baird Lane yet, so naturally she still has an obligation to take care of him.
Christine White closed the door to her room and turned to go back to her room, and just as she reached the bed, she saw the person in the bed move.
The next second, his eyes opened and he woke up.