“It’s okay.”
Kevin smiled. It was indeed hard, but it wasn’t the physical pain he suffered, but the suppressed thoughts of her in his heart.
“How are parents?”
“Well, they’re good. Mom has accepted the fact that Lena left home and has been in a much better mood these days.”
“What about you? Are you okay?”
Bella nodded, “Of course, I’m fine too.”
Kevin’s return made the originally dreary home a lot more active. Blanche ordered the maids to prepare a large table of food and put a lot of dishes in her son’s bowl, “Eat more. How did you lose weight like this …”
“Is everything going well with the cooperation over there in Saudi Arabia?”
The father always talked to his son more about work, though in his heart he was actually concerned about his son’s life over there.
“Well, it went well.”
Kevin nodded and distributed the food piled up like a mountain in the bowl to Bella, “You also eat more.”
Blanche smiled at her husband, “How our son is not like you at all? How well he treats his wife!”
“Do you mean I’m not good to you?”
“You’ll just mind your own food. Have you ever put food on to my plate?”
“They’re just polite, but we’ve been married for decades. Do we still need to do all that window dressing?”
Oh, the family laughed in unison as if they were back to when Lena was there and the atmosphere was relaxing.
After eating dinner and going upstairs, Bella unpacked the luggage for Kevin, pointed to the bathroom, and said, “Go take a hot shower. Flying is the most tiring.”
“Okay.”
Kevin went into the bathroom, standing under the shower, let the cold water drenching from head to foot. Being calm for a month made him no longer so heavy. The moment he saw Bella at the airport, there were no other thoughts but he missed her so much. With the passage of time, guilt and self-responsibility was forgotten in that distant country of Saudi Arabia.
He secretly decided to hide that secret forever in his heart, and treat Bella well to make up for the guilt that night.
When he left the bathroom, Bella had already unpacked his luggage and took a dry towel and said, “Let me help you wipe the water from your hair.”
Kevin sat on the stool, and Bella stood in front of him. She wiped every hair for him very gently and very dutifully. She had changed into a sexy nightgown, knowing that tonight would be a romantic night. After a month apart, they missed each other physically and mentally.
She had been wiping for a long time, but Kevin was all still. She couldn’t help but feel a little strange, so she simply sat on his lap, reached out, and held his neck, slowly trying to take the initiative to kiss him.
Kevin had a brief illusion. His eyes were very blurry as if he saw that Freya was slowly approaching him that night. He suddenly rebounded up, pushing Bella to the side.
“Kevin…”
Bella looked at him in shock, not understanding why he was suddenly doing this to her.
Only then did Kevin realize that he had lost control and hugged her tightly, saying apologetically, “I’m sorry. I’m probably too tired.”
“It’s okay.” Seeing the exhaustion in his eyes, Bella didn’t bother too much, but pointed at the bed and said, “Get some rest. Your dark circles are so heavy. I wonder if you haven’t slept in this month.”
In fact, Kevin had indeed slept very little this month. Because he was too blue. Every time he closed his eyes, he could see Bella accusing him and her eyes were angry and desperate.
“Bella, I seem to be having a bit of insomnia lately, so sing me a song …”
Bella held his head, stroking his hair while singing the “Lullaby” that her mother used to sing to her when she was a child. With the hypnosis of her gentle touch and warm voice, Kevin finally had a good sleep.
This night, he did not wake up halfway. It had been a whole month that he had not such a sound sleep. He was really unable to live without Bella.
Under the same night sky, a slender figure was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, listening to the person’s behind her say to her, “Kevin is back.”
The woman turned her head. Under the moonlight, she looked innocent but showed an evil smile, “Then, the good show is about to begin.”
Early in the morning, Kevin was in particularly good spirits, perhaps because he had slept. After shaving his beard, he was different from yesterday and seemed to look as handsome and dashing as he used to be.
He went downstairs alongside Bella, pulled out the stool for her, and they sat down. The beautiful morning began with a good breakfast.
“Wow, the treatment of son and daughter-in-law is different. As soon as your son returns, both dinner and breakfast are overly rich.”
Blanche smiled, “Nonsense. Did we let you starved?”
“I didn’t get starved, but at least it won’t be so plentiful …”
Bella picked up a sandwich and ate it with a piece of five-minute steak. She actually ate it particularly well because it might taste really good or Kevin had returned.
“Drink some milk.”
Kevin gave her a glance, afraid that she would choke on the rush of food.
“Alright.”
As soon as Bella lifted the milk and drank it, she heard a clamor from outside the door, “Miss, I haven’t informed you yet. You can’t go in.”
“I have something urgent to see Kevin.”
“Wait for me to inform them. If our young master lets you in, then you can come in.”
“Go away.”
Freya glowered gloomily at the guard in front of her and stormed into the living room menacingly.
“What are you doing here?”
A group of people had come out of the dining table and stood in front of Freya.
Freya sternly glanced at the crowd and sneered, “Very well. All of you are here. Then we can make things clear once and for all.”
Kevin strode forward and grabbed her arm, gnashing his teeth and saying, “Come out with me.”
“I’m not going out. They need to know what I have to say.”
Freya shook off his hand, looking askance at the front, and said faintly, “I’m pregnant.”
The atmosphere was frozen in an instant. All the people looked at her in shock, and Bella only felt as if her heart had skipped a beat, her face pale.
“What business does your pregnancy have in our family?”
Patrick was the first to calm down and angrily questioned.
“Kevin’s child.”
Bella’s legs went limp and she fell to the floor …
“Bella!!!”
Kevin rushed to her in panic and grabbed her into his arms, “Don’t listen to her nonsense. She’s gone crazy.”
“You know better than anyone else whether I’m talking nonsense or not. Do you need me to bring out the evidence?!”
Freya ranted hysterically.
She couldn’t bear her former lover treating another woman like a treasure right in front of her.
“Get out of my house!”
Kevin bellowed angrily at the dumbfounded guard and said, “Drag that crazy woman out of here!”
Only then did the two guards react, pulling her hands and dragging Freya outside. Freya struggled and cried out through gritted teeth, “Do you think this is something you can just run away from? I’ll expose it to the media if you don’t admit it, so that everyone can see how cold-blooded and irresponsible your Jones-Sharp family is, and I’ll be ready to risk everything if you’re shameless!”
“Let her go!”
Blanche, who had sobered up from the shock, stepped in front of Freya and asked coldly, “What proof do you have that you are pregnant with our Jones-Sharp family’s child.”
“This is an ultrasound checklist. I’ve been pregnant for a month. I shared a room with your son on the night of June 18th. You can count the days right.”
“Do you want to prove that you’re pregnant with our Jones-Sharp family’s child with an ultrasound sheet? Do you know that your mother threatened me like that twenty years ago?”
Freya shrugged off the guard’s hand on her arm, tilted her chin up, and said righteously, “It doesn’t matter. Then let’s wait until the amniotic fluid is drawn for a DNA test after three months.”
Her composure made the couple quite confused. Patrick walked up to his son and asked softly, “Did you guys really have sex?”
He was only momentarily desperate to know the truth, but he ignored his daughter-in-law’s feelings, and Bella was heartbroken.
“Let her get out.”
Kevin glared at Freya with his red eyes. The hand holding Bella was trembling. What he feared the most finally came.
“You can ask me if he doesn’t answer this question.”
Freya looked down and took out some pictures from her backpack, “This is the best answer.”
The Jones-Sharps’ couple looked at each other. Their eyes moved from the photos to their son, and they were unable to believe that such a thing could happen. Bella woodenly stood up from the ground, then woodenly walked towards the in-laws, snatched the photos from their hands, shuddered and read them, then slumped to the ground again with a thud.
Kevin could feel Bella’s heartache than anyone else at the moment. If he was not clear about her feelings, how would he not confess to her under the enormous pressure …
Finally, his patience reached its limit. He got up and rushed to Freya, grabbed her by the neck, and said with gritted teeth, “Maybe I should have let you die that day!”
Freya’s face screwed for a moment and she trembled as she said, “Even if I die, I’m worth it. I’m not alone.”
“Then go to hell!!!”
Kevin intensified the force of his hand. Freya blacked out and almost cannot breathe. But Patrick appeared in time to stop the tragedy.
“Calm down. Now that it’s happened, it’s useless to strangle her to death.”
“I won’t let go of anyone who hurts my wife!”
Kevin thought of the previous dream. He looked askance at Bella, whose eyes were as angry and hopeless as those in his dreams …
He was completely irrational. He pushed his father away and rushed to Freya again, but his mother grabbed him around the waist from behind, “Kevin, calm down. She still has a baby in her belly!”
The scene was chaotic for a moment. Bella looked woodenly and felt it was as unreal as a dream. Just ten minutes ago, she thought it was a beautiful morning. Why did everything change in a moment? In front of her, it was boundless darkness …
“Bella-”
When Patrick saw his daughter-in-law fainting on the ground, he cried out in panic. Kevin who was mad also let out a miserable cry when he saw Bella faint.
When Bella woke up, she couldn’t tell where she was. It might be heaven or hell.
It shouldn’t be hell. There wouldn’t be such bright lights in hell. But if she was in heaven, why would her heart ache? Wouldn’t heaven be a place where people would feel happy?
Her heart was aching, but she couldn’t cry. She didn’t care if someone else cut her heart, because it had been hurt badly already. All she cared about was that someone else did what she couldn’t do for her.
She felt very useless.
Kevin saw her wake up, trembling, reaching out to touch her face. Her silence frightened him. He wished she would be hysterical and cry and make trouble with him. She should at least question him why he was like this, but she didn’t. She was like a shell of a drained soul. Her only reaction was to blink her empty eyes at him.
“Bella, if you want to cry, cry then. I’ll explain it to you when you’re relieved. Go ahead and cry …”
Kevin’s heart ached, his head against her forehead, “I’m sorry. I’m really sorry …”
His voice choked, eyelashes moistening. Her look made him feel pain than stabbing his heart with a knife. He was so painful that he was really about to suffocate.
Bella was still woodenly looking at him, not saying a word, not shedding a single tear. It was not that her heart got numb, but her soul got numb. If a man’s soul was numb, what emotions could she still have? She could only live like a dead man.
“Bella, don’t look like this. You cry. You cry!!!”
Kevin shook her shoulders vigorously, very greatly distressed. If there was a knife in front of him, he would not hesitate to stab himself in the heart or die of heartache at the sight of Bella’s despair.
“Why her? If you want a baby, you can go have it with any woman out there, but why is it her …”
Why was it the woman who trampled on her self-esteem?
After Kevin cries himself hoarse over and over again, Bella finally spoke, but there was still no vivid expression on her face, even if it was anger or sadness.
As Kevin stared at her in a daze, unable to speak because he felt her intense grief, Bella slowly looked up with her empty eyes and finally shed tears, “That’s my last dignity …”
“Bella, it’s not like that. It’s not like that. I love you so much. How could I betray you …”
Kevin hugged her into his arms, shedding tears of heartache. This was the second time he shed tears for Bella. Even when Freya left him, he was so depressed but he had never cried. But now, he could not restrain the tears that were more precious than gold.
He wanted to explain, but he knew that before he could explain, he had to calm Bella’s broken heart. As a responsible man, he shouldn’t defend himself after the matter was revealed, but should take up the responsibility. No matter how innocent he was that night, it could not be a reason to justify this moment. Before saying that he was innocent, what he should have said was sorry …