“Hello, is this Miss Miller? This is Jane. I want to talk to you about the Pansy family and your child.”
Jane sent this message and waited until evening before receiving a reply.
“If you’re planning something harmful against me or my child, I suggest you don’t bother.”
Hollie’s guard was up, it seemed like she still had plans for her child.
“Justice will prevail. I’ve been running my company for so long without doing anything immoral. Miss Miller, you can rest assured.”
Jane replied with confidence. If it were someone else in her shoes, they would have already fought with their husband over such an issue.
But Jane trusted Patrick; he wouldn’t do something like that.
“I’ll be waiting for you at the coffee shop near your house.”
Jane sent another message and Hollie agreed to meet her there.
She breathed a sigh of relief and hoped that this matter would be resolved quickly.
The wedding drama wasn’t over yet, Mike was still sick, and Patrick was busy with work. She had no choice but to communicate with Hollie herself now.
Soon, Hollie arrived at the designated location, prepared and hiding a small knife in secret, fearing that Jane might do something harmful to her and the child.
“Miss Miller,” Jane said with a slight smile, then pointed to the seat in front of her, “Please have a seat.”
Hollie still looked nervous and uneasy. After she sat down, she stared straight at Jane with her eyes fixed on her.
“Miss Miller, there’s no need to look at me like that. I came here on my own today.”
Jane revealed her true intentions, “I don’t know what I need to do to make you spare the Pansy family and me?”
Seeing Jane’s composed and determined attitude, Hollie suddenly felt inferior in her presence.
No wonder Patrick would fall for a woman like her. If she were in her shoes, it would be hard not to admire her composure.
“What Patrick did, he should take responsibility for. Naturally, he should properly support my child,” Hollie stated her thoughts directly, and Jane fell silent for a moment.
“How can you prove that the child is Patrick’s?” Jane asked.
“Do you think I wouldn’t know if I slept with another man?” Hollie retorted directly. But at that moment, Jane’s expression turned serious.
“No one can say for sure in such a situation. There are many men who resemble Patrick in physique.”
To Hollie’s surprise, Jane caught onto her mistake, “You mentioned in the live stream last night that it was very dark at the time. How could you see clearly that the person was Patrick? What if you were mistaken?”
“Ms. North, you don’t need to use this incident to argue against me,” Hollie countered, not an easy target herself. She confronted Jane directly, “Even if it was dark, that man was right in front of me. Could I not recognize him? He made me pregnant. If I don’t look for him, then who?”
“You know, Patrick already has a family now. By coming out like this and claiming that an unborn child is Patrick’s without sufficient evidence, anyone could say they were slept with by Patrick, and anyone could demand that Patrick support a child,” Jane argued.
To her surprise, Hollie didn’t even bat an eye at these words, “If we need evidence, it’s not impossible. We can go to the hospital and get a proof, but I’m afraid Patrick wouldn’t dare to go with me, would he?”
Looking at Hollie’s confident expression, Jane shook her head.
“I didn’t expect you to be so stubborn. Then there’s no point in saying anything more.”
“Patrick slept with me and denied it. Now his wife has come out to defend him. It seems like you two are quite a team,” Hollie mocked, and Jane’s face turned dark.
“We wanted to discuss the child’s matter with you, but it’s unacceptable if you use the child as a threat to the Pansy family.”
After the conversation, Jane didn’t find any loopholes in Hollie’s words. On the contrary, she had to be cautious since Hollie was pregnant. If she became too confrontational, Hollie would hold onto it.
Meanwhile, at the hospital.
“Go back.”
Patrick growled lowly, unable to tolerate Beatrice’s unreasonable behavior in front of him any longer.
These days, with Mike in a coma, Beatrice had been nagging about dividing the family assets, giving him no peace for a moment.
If it weren’t for Mike still being unconscious, Patrick might not have been able to hold on.
“You want to drive me away? Let me tell you, that’s not possible,” Beatrice became stubborn as well, standing her ground, her gaze locking with Patrick’s.
“I’m leaving. If I go, won’t all the family assets be yours alone? Then they will all fall into that woman’s hands, and the Pansy family will become hers!”
“She is my wife.”
Patrick lowered his gaze, glared fiercely at the woman in front of him.
If it weren’t for Beatrice being his mother, he would have lost his patience long ago.
“So what? Compared to Florence, she is nothing in my eyes!”
“Don’t mention her in front of me.”
Patrick glared fiercely at the woman in front of him, his eyes as cold as a stranger’s.
“If you have nothing to do, go abroad. Once the wedding is over, you have no business here anymore.”
Patrick forcibly sent Beatrice out of the country, but she was unwilling and stubbornly stayed in the hospital, refusing to leave.
“I’m not leaving. Now, for that woman, you have repeatedly driven your mother away. Do you have no conscience?”
Beatrice directly accused Patrick, even bringing up the online incident, “Everyone knows that you slept with that woman and got her pregnant. If I weren’t here, I’m afraid you would have been devoured by others.”
“You being here puts me in even more danger.”
Patrick’s gaze was icy as he looked at Beatrice, devoid of any emotion.
“Hurry up and go abroad. Here, you’ll only be like this.”
“Oh, now you find me annoying.”
Beatrice sneered, refusing to leave and causing a scene, “I’m not leaving today. Give up on that idea!”
“You!”
Patrick gritted his teeth, looking at the woman in front of him who was throwing a tantrum. He couldn’t believe that this person was his biological mother.
“What ‘you’?! Are you saying you can forcibly take me away today? Let me tell you, now that I’m here, I won’t leave!”
Beatrice couldn’t bear to stay in that lonely foreign country any longer.
“Now that Mike is sick and you both have to work, how can you possibly have time to take care of him? If I stay, I can take care of him. Are you really so filial that you would abandon your work and come to see Mike?”
Beatrice directly brought up the matter of taking care of Mike, leaving Patrick speechless for a moment.