Snuggled in Edward’s arms, Vivian still couldn’t stop sobbing, worried about Ashtyn, afraid that there might be some kind of accident with the little one.
Yesterday, she kept blaming Edward, and today, she barely said a word.
If she had hit and scolded him, it would have instead released Edward’s uneasiness and guilt, which now, instead, made him more and more depressed.
“I know, it’s my bad.”
Leaning beside her, wrapping his arms around her, constantly soothing Vivian’s emotions, Edward used almost all of his decades of accumulated tenderness on Vivian’s body, he said, “I swear, I will find our child. In the future, I will use my life to protect your safety.”
Once did not understand love, he felt that love is a burden, a burden, a weakness and an obstacle on the road to success.
But now that he has Vivian and Ashtyn, he realizes that success does not mean a perfect life, and that having a family with children, warmth and harmony, is the best.
To him, it is better than everything.
The little woman clutched his lapel with both hands and choked helplessly.
Perhaps she really did not know what to say, but hearing Edward’s words, her heart was overwhelmed with emotion.
“I believe … believe in you.”
Crying so hard that you can’t stop sobbing when you talk.
A pitiful look that causes heartache.
Edward’s heart is quite unpleasant, raised his hand, thumb finger gently over her cheeks, wiping the tears on her cheeks.
“Since you believe in me, close your eyes, stop thinking nonsense and get some rest. Tomorrow, we will definitely see Ashtyn.”
“Hmm.”
Vivian nodded and closed her eyes.
But as soon as you close your eyes, you can’t help but think of Ashtyn’s cute little face, and it gets harder and harder to feel.
Tears, staining the eyes, overflowed from the corners of the eyes and slid down.
Everything fell into Edward’s eyes and left him a little bewildered.
“Vivian…”
He called out, wanting to comfort Vivian, but after opening his mouth he didn’t know what to say.
How to coax a woman?
Now it’s a problem for Edward.
After thinking about it, I thought of the picture of parents coaxing their children in TV dramas and said, “Since I can’t sleep, I’ll tell you a story, okay?”
Vivian: “…”
After a few seconds of silence, he nodded with his eyes closed.
“What do you want to hear?”
“I don’t know.”
“So … I’ll tell you about when I was a kid.”
Edward didn’t know what to tell or what Vivian liked, so he planned to tell a story about himself as a child.
Remembering the childhood time, Edward’s eyes deepened for a few moments, and his eyebrows were suddenly tinged with some heaviness.
His thin lips pursed, a moment, lightly opened, said: “In the Henderson Family, several uncles, my father ranked the oldest, but he did not have deep feelings for me, it seems that from … my mother died, he was more distant to me, and to Flora is very good . Not only him, but also the old man and the old lady. Many times, I wondered if they were patriarchal. But later I found out that this was not the case, because they treated several cousins very well.
I remember the year my mother died, they sent me straight to a closed school and didn’t even visit me for three years. If they hadn’t given me regular monthly payments, I would have thought they had forgotten about me. Later, I got into military school with excellent grades, and was promoted to sergeant in the army by myself, and then after repeated meritorious promotions, they seemed to know that there was such a person as me.
The indifferent attitude towards me only slowly transformed and gradually made me feel as if they were relatives. But … no matter what, I can’t feel the feeling that blood relatives should have.
That’s why I’m haunted by my mom’s death.
Because, at the Henderson Family, I feel like there is a deep, deep gulf between all the people and me. From the beginning when I wanted to be close and was rejected, to recently, when they wanted to be close and was rejected by me. My disposition has also grown colder and colder. Among those people, the only person I felt I could rely on was Flora.
When I was a child at the Henderson Family, whenever Flora had a small bump, the Henderson Family would take me to task, but every time, it was Flora who defended me. I was grateful, touched, but jealous.
However, this does not affect the brother-sister relationship I have with Flora.”
Listening to Edward’s mention of the past, Vivian’s attention gradually shifted.
Stopped crying, incredulously raised his eyes to look at the man in front of him, for a moment, she actually felt some pity for him.
Also finally understand when in Orco Mount, because Flora ‘saw’ Adriana ‘stabbed’ Sloane and was frightened, Adriana to find Flora confrontation, Edward was furious, and Adriana confronted Flora, Edward was furious and got into a fight with Adriana.
Edward’s care for Flora could be felt at that time.
She even had the unrealistic idea in her head that Edward had an unspeakable incestuous affair with Flora.
Now that I think about it, the reason must be here.
“You …”
Vivian wanted to say something, but didn’t know how to say it.
Edward looked down, looking down at the woman in his arms, and from the expression on her face seemed to penetrate her mind, “Are you asking me if there is a possibility that the Henderson Family’s child is not the Henderson Family’s?”
Vivian nodded.
She, indeed, had this in mind.
Why else would the Henderson Family be so indifferent to him?
“At first, I thought about it, but the old man later gave me all the family business to take care of, and said that he was indifferent to me before because he wanted to train me, otherwise, in the the Henderson Family, where the old man showed excessive favor to me, he would put me in deep danger. Even so, I can’t maintain the closeness between relatives as they should be like normal relatives.”
“That’s true.”
Vivian felt that what the old man said made sense.
The luxury family is as deep as the sea, full of treacherous calculations and danger everywhere.
If Old Mr. Henderson really showed favor to Edward, then it would surely provoke the Henderson Family’s people to calculate against him.
Listening to him talk about his past, Vivian couldn’t help but feel some heartache for the man in front of him.
Reaching around his waist, she rubbed her head on his chest, “Let’s sleep.”
Vivian knew that Edward had been under too much pressure, so she didn’t want to add unnecessary psychological burdens to him.
She knew Edward was a man of few words, and the fact that he could tell her about his past in front of her was proof of her status in his heart.
“Good night.”
Edward’s large palm covered her cheek, gently rubbing it, and leaned down to drop a kiss on her forehead, “Go to sleep.”
…
This night, because they were all worried about Ashtyn’s safety, so several people slept late, but the next day woke up extraordinarily early.
Living room.
Adriana and Peter both washed up and went downstairs to find the Harlee two and Edward two already waiting downstairs.
Because Adriana is not well, she sleeps too late and wakes up a little later in the morning.