The infusion was over, she regrettably looked at Jaiden, who stayed awake all night. She utilized him, “Jaiden, just go back, I’m fine.”
“Halle, the doctor said you need to recuperate, so move in with me, ok?”
She shook her head, “No.”
She didn’t like Issac’s shifty voice and expression.
“All the debts are paid. The Hill family doesn’t owe anyone. Halle, believe me, I will give you a good life.”
She didn’t know how Jaiden earned so much money to pay tens of millions of debts and revitalize the entire company but those all had nothing to do with her. However, she wanted the 50, 000, which was took by Agnes from Hunter to the Hill family, that was also considered the Hill family owed her, “Give me 50, 000.”
Then she could account clear with Hunter, and she could leave T City all alone after the thesis defense.
She just wanted her baby.
When Jaiden was left, Halle packed up her things and left the hospital. She was so upset and annoyed that she didn’t want to see anyone.
But she had to meet Hunter. She knew that Hunter would most likely not provide his bank account number, so that she could not pay back the money, so she simply took a big bag to the bank and desperately withdrew 50, 000, unexpectedly found that Jaiden actually gave her an extra 20, 000.
She felt warm, let it be that she borrowed from him, she would pay him back in the future. Her current body made it hard for her to find any suitable job. She withdrew all the money, and directly closed the card account, so that she would never have to accept any gift from Jaiden.
She walked towards Hunter’s dormitory in gasps, carrying the bag of money. It was better that Natalie was also there, so that she could truly and completely end the relationship with Hunter.
Knocking on the door, unexpectedly it was Hunter’s voice, “Come in.”
She pushed open the door, the dormitory was clean. Only Hunter was packing his luggage, it seemed that he was ready to leave, making Halle secretly relieved that she came in time. Looking up and seeing it was her, Hunter walked over, his tall figure enveloped her, “Halle, why are you carrying such a big bag?”
Glancing at the inconspicuous bag she was carrying, he asked with concern.
The bag fell to the ground as soon as she released it.
She could no longer hold it, “I pay the 50, 000 dollars back to you, Hunter, we do not owe each other anymore.”
Then, she turned around and left.
“Halle …”
A hand fell on her shoulder, trying to retain her.
“Let go of me, or I’ll sue you for hooliganism.”
She shouted nonchalantly. Her voice went to the corridor through the half-open door of dormitory, and immediately drew the attention of two boys passing by.
Hunter had to remove his hand, but continued to said,
“Halle, I want to talk with you.”
She back to him and laughed lightly, “I guess it’s unnecessary, are you going to tell me the romantic love story between you and Natalie?
That’s unnecessary, you were my debtor before I entering this dormitory, but now, you are nothing.”
After saying that, she shook off his hand with a shrug and then walked out of Hunter’s world with a big stride.
She locked herself in the library and devoted herself to prepare her graduation thesis and thesis defense. That diploma was the stepping-stone for her future job, so she must take the diploma seriously.
Jaiden seemed to shrink back from difficulties and never appeared again, it made her relaxed.
After finishing the thesis defense successfully, Halle packed her items and ready to leave school. The summer wind gently raised her clothes, the heat wave warmly rippled her heart. She might be right, might be wrong, but she had no way back under the circumstances.
She lived in a small rented room, everything was changed, including the cell phone number. She completely secluded herself from everyone she had ever known.
It was newfangled for her to not be bothered. But the fetus was only two months old, and there were still seven months to be born. She didn’t want to depend on her savings. She had paid attention to every job she could do, but nobody wanted a temporarily worker. Frequent overtime work or heavy work is unacceptable for her. Halle was nearly discouraged after looking for job for half a month. However, she found a small shop specializing in maternity clothes was for sale. The shop was small, and the goods on the shelves had been almost sold, only a few dozen pieces left. Basically, it was an empty shop, and the transfer fee was properly 20, 000.
Thinking carefully, she finally bought the shop. She had a fetus, so that she couldn’t go to work in 2 years even the child was born. She could make the cost of living while taking care of her baby if she had such a shop, only need to hire a hand. Though the shop was not in the center of T City, the human volume of this area was also quite large, coupled with a large number of tenants, she wouldn’t worry about the sales provided she chose goods which were attractive in both price and quality.
Halle quickly adapted under her probe and the introduction of previous shopkeeper. She never knew that the profit of clothing turned out to be so good, just to buy more goods to be more cost-effective, but she had little money, so the money she earned had to be used to buy goods. She filled the small shop with goods after one month.
Her pregnant belly gradually got obvious. It was alright that she ate and lived in the small shop alone.
Her life was occupied with nothing but work every day. She didn’t know whether she was forgotten, or she forgot those who once knew each other. She dealt with strangers every day vigorously. She wouldn’t feel dysphoric if she saved enough money. She couldn’t afford to give the best to her baby, but she would never make her baby wronged. After the summer, the weather gradually got cold, her belly was getting bigger and bigger. Occasionally, she went to the phone booth to make a call to Agnes, which was the only contact with the outside world.
Early in the morning, after opening the door of the shop, the business got good immediately when she stood in front of the door like a model. The clothing which she worn would sale well. The pregnant customers also liked to chat with her because of her benignancy and stylish outfits, even in maternity dress.
“Ronan, stop, look at that pink maternity dress at the door of that store, I want it.”
The affectedly sweet female voice came behind Halle, the name of ‘Ronan’ made her stunned, subconsciously turned back, seeing Ronan was outside the window, dressed in black T-shirt, was walking towards her shop accompanied a pot-bellied woman…
She thought she would never see him again, but at this moment, people outside the door were Ronan and a woman who was at a minimum of five or six months pregnant. The two arms that were held together were so intimate. Watching him carefully let the woman hold him while walking, Halle was a little absent-minded. Fortunately, a customer woke her up in time, “Madam, how much this maternity dress is?”
Halle’s consciousness returned immediately, and she rushed to the woman’s side, then whispered,
“I’ll give it to you freely, but you should go out and help me get rid of the two customers of the man and woman outside, and if they ask about the price, just say it’s one thousand dollars per piece.”
The woman froze for a moment, then laughed, “OK, I’ll do it.”
Just need to answer the price and she would get a maternity dress. The woman didn’t hesitate at all to agree.
Halle dodged into the bathroom quickly, quietly leaving a slit. She like an ostrich. As a pregnant woman, she didn’t want to raise new issues.
He wouldn’t admit this child, even if she told him it was his child, he definitely wouldn’t admit it.
She touched her bell. Anyway, she must protect her child. It was her baby that only belonged to her, and nothing to do with him.
She saw the pregnant woman talked casually with Ronan and the woman beside him, then told them price. Unexpectedly, Ronan actually paid a thousand dollars for the maternity dress without saying a word.
He is so generous. He would buy everything as possible as he can if his beloved favored, no matter how good or bad that was.
Sometimes, it was quite happy to be his woman.
But he would not give love to any woman.
And if he was in love with this woman who was pregnant with his kid?
Maybe so, otherwise, grandpa had passed away for a long time, how could he wrong himself for a child again?
He wouldn’t.
It turned out that he liked girls as sweet as that woman.
She shook her head. She has nothing to do with him anymore.
Seeing the woman got into his car and they left together, she stepped out of the restroom and the pregnant woman immediately handed her the money she had just received.
“A thousand, madam, just right.”
She took the money stiffly, then gradually came to her sense, “Thank you, try it on, if it fits you can take it, if it doesn’t you can choose anyone in the shop.
The woman happily went to choose and said,
“Do you know that man?
He’s so handsome.”
Her heart beat a little, more than knowing, the child in her womb was his.
But they would like passersby even when they saw each other again.
If so, she preferred not to see him.
She deliberately didn’t read newspaper and watch TV, or only watched some movies and TV shows even if she did. She didn’t want to know any news about Ronan. She decided to give up forever.
With her belly getting bigger, she had more difficulties in moving. She went to the housekeeping company and hired a nanny to take care of her during the puerperium, by the way, to tend her little shop. Now, she could afford to give birth to the baby.
Everything was ready, just waiting for the baby to be born, however, she was getting more and more nervous.
“Mom, it’s Halle.”
Fearing she had no way to get to a phone booth to call when she gave birth to baby, Halle called her earlier.