Back at The Shine, Jane Gardner put the trophy in her room and set it up. She stared at it, secretly telling in her mind that if she had another chance in the future, she would continue to grind on this path of music.
She would write more and better songs.
As she was thinking this, the baby in her belly kicked her naughtily, and she put her palm to her belly, remembering Gilbert Martinez’s words unexpectedly.
She told herself not to think about it, that in the little time she had left, she just needed to trust Zachary Irwin with all her heart and soul and be okay with him.
At that moment, her cell phone rang.
It was the first time in a long time that she had received that call.
Jane Gardner pressed the connect button with a shaky hand.
“Jane, I saw on the news that you are about to get engaged, congratulations.” On the other end of the line was none other than Lily Benz, the woman she and Zachary Irwin had been looking for.
Some time before Selena Lott disappeared, Lily Benz got Jane Gardner’s contact information from somewhere, and she reached out to Jane Gardner.
At first, Jane Gardner could not believe that the person on the other side of the text message was Lily Benz, until she received a hair from Lily Benz, which she used to take a paternity test with her own.
After the test results showed that they were indeed mother and daughter, she believed that she had really found her real mother.
However, she was not happy for long when Lily Benz told her that she now had leukemia and needed Jane Gardner’s help in matching her for a bone marrow transplant.
Even though Lily Benz found her just to save her life, Jane Gardner promised Lily Benz that she would go and get a match with her as soon as the baby was born.
So, in the meantime, Jane Gardner kept in touch with Lily Benz in secret. She did not want to tell Zachary Irwin because she was afraid that Zachary Irwin would stop her and forbid her to leave.
In fact, Jane Gardner was aware that she might leave Dragon City, and after the Gilbert Martinez incident, she realized her heart clearly, she decided to leave everything behind and be with Zachary Irwin.
Although, at that time, Zachary Irwin still did not say he loved her, but she did not want to spend the last remaining time to calculate who loves who more, who likes who more.
She thought that her single-minded devotion would not necessarily bring Zachary Irwin’s heart, but unexpectedly, after she opened up her heart, Zachary Irwin also put himself into his heart.
Once she thought she could turn away in style, but now, she is tied to Zachary Irwin on the one hand, and the baby on the other, and as her due date approaches, her heart is becoming more and more painful.
“How’s your health? Can you still wait?” Jane Gardner asked as she heard Lily Benz’s voice on the other end of the line sound a little weak.
“I’m fine. I’ve lasted so long, I don’t care if I have to wait a little longer. But you, I’m so sorry, you’ve grown up without me doing anything for you, and now I’m asking you to …,” Lily Benz said on the other side of the phone, full of guilt.
“You gave birth to me and gave me life, it’s only right that I make a match for you.” Jane Gardner said.
After that, the two hadn’t seen each other after all, and hadn’t been in touch for years, and for a while the air was quiet.
Jane Gardner didn’t know how she and Lily Benz ended the call, and she walked out of the room in a daze before she remembered to delete the call.
“Aren’t you tired? I’ve put the hot water on for you, get some rest tonight, tomorrow is the engagement party, it’s going to be busy and tiring.” Zachary Irwin saw Jane Gardner coming out of the room, he went up and helped Jane Gardner and led her to the bathroom.
“…” Jane Gardner didn’t say anything, she looked at Zachary Irwin’s face and raised her hand to attach it, “If, I would leave you for a while afterwards, would you wait for me? ”
Jane Gardner didn’t know how long it would take before and after the match, and she didn’t know what would happen to her body after the match was made.
She was afraid to tell Zachary Irwin everything, but she couldn’t bear to part with him.
She told herself that if Zachary Irwin was not with Alice Cox after she left, then she would continue to reunite with his family when she returned.
On the contrary, if after she left, Zachary Irwin and Alice Cox got together, then it means that their feelings are not that deep and they don’t need to be together anymore.
The reason she promised Alice Cox to leave before is not a saintly mother’s heart, much less for Alice Cox.
She wants to give Zachary Irwin a test, wants to give Zachary Irwin a fair chance, she does not want to morally kidnap like forcing Zachary Irwin to wait for himself, she loves him, so, wants him to be happy.
Even if, that person who can give him happiness is someone else.
“Where are you going?” Zachary Irwin didn’t notice the seriousness in Jane Gardner’s words as he stepped forward, helped Jane Gardner undress, and then tested the water temperature.
Once upon a time, he had never done this for anyone.
Today, he waits on Jane Gardner as a matter of course.
“Not going anywhere, I’m just saying.” Jane Gardner looked at Zachary Irwin’s back as she stepped forward and hugged gently, “Zachary, thank you for this award, thank you for my engagement gift, I’ll remember it for the rest of my life.”
Zachary Irwin held Jane Gardner’s hand, his voice darkened, he turned around, cupped Jane Gardner’s face, leaned down and kissed her, “Little goblin, if you keep torturing me like this, I will really not be able to resist!”
Jane Gardner, thinking that the two of them would soon be separated, raised her hand and took the initiative to climb on Zachary Irwin’s back, “Zachary, take me!”
This night, Zachary Irwin clearly feel Jane Gardner different.
He thought that she was taking the initiative because she was getting engaged tomorrow, so he didn’t think much of it.
The next day.
The Shine was decorated with lights and music everywhere.
Ottilia Amos was dressed in a dark red cheongsam with her hair up, looking festive and spirited.
She came to Jane Gardner’s courtyard and took Jane Gardner’s hand affectionately, “Here, when you got married for the first time, Grandma didn’t have time to give it to you. This is a gold jade bracelet that only the Irwin family daughters-in-law can wear, and it is engraved with the family name “Xin”, which means “hand in hand” and “love”.
Jane Gardner took the jade bracelet and felt the jade was translucent, and a coolness invaded her body in her hand.
“Thank you, Grandma.” Jane Gardner thanked her sincerely, Zachary Irwin had no father or mother, and she had no parents-in-law, but Ottilia Amos had treated her with impeccable care.
“Silly child, we are all family, what word of thanks. Is the due date coming up? Zachary and I both mean the same thing. We’ll get engaged first, and after the baby is born and you’re done with your month, then we’ll prepare for the wedding. The wedding three years ago, too hasty, grandmother has always felt indebted to you, this time to make up for all.
If you want to know what kind of wedding dress you want, just tell Zachary, let her take you abroad to choose, and jewelry, you are the Irwin family young grandmother, the jewelry is too little in the past, in the future, grandmother also give you all back, in addition, do you have a driver’s license? If you want to buy a few cars after the birth of your child, you can do it yourself.
Ottilia Amos thought about it, for the time being can’t think of anything else to explain, she looked at Jane Gardner, all smiles on her face.
“Madam, young lady, The Shine gatekeeper called, said there is a Shan York, is the young lady’s maiden family, she does not have an invitation, but she is spilling the beans and wants to come in, asking if we will let her go or not?” Steeply, the housekeeper standing next to Ottilia Amos answered the phone and then asked to Jane Gardner.
Normally, The Shine’s doorman could take care of himself.
But Shan York was so rascally that the guards couldn’t do anything about it, and since she claimed to be Jane Gardner’s mother’s family, they didn’t dare to kick her out, so they had to call for instructions.
When Ottilia Amos heard this, she asked Jane Gardner.
“Kick out.” Jane Gardner knew Shan York was coming, and absolutely nothing good was going to come of it, she said.
The housekeeper heard and told the doorman to shoo it away.
Jane Gardner thought that Shan York couldn’t get in after the doorman kicked her out.
But she didn’t expect Kailee Cyrus to call her again.