Patrick and his wife came to the daughter-in-law’s room. Looking at the daughter-in-law who looked wooden and the son who looked grief, the couple also felt extremely bad.
“Kevin, what’s going on? You should explain it to us quickly. I don’t believe that my son would get mixed up in this kind of situation.”
Blanche looked anxiously at her son. Kevin closed his eyes in pain and slowly recalled the memories in his heart that he didn’t want to remember. If Freya hadn’t come to his door today, he was determined to bury this secret forever.
When he confessed everything that happened that night, Patrick angrily smashed his fist against the wall, “This woman is really as treacherous as her mother. Her mother used such a trick, so I fell for it back then!” He sighed, “I didn’t expect that we were always clever, but we both got trapped by them. I really can’t let it go.”
“Like mother, like daughter. Now that things have happened, it’s useless to be angry. We have to think of a way to solve it.”
Blanche looked askance at her daughter-in-law and said sadly, “Bella, I know you’re having a hard time right now. Don’t worry, Kevin and we are on your side. We won’t let that slut woman make troubles and mess up our nice family.”
After listening to Kevin’s explanation, Bella still didn’t have much of a reaction. There was only the image of Freya righteously announcing that she was pregnant with Kevin’s child in her mind. That was the most important thing. Did the rest matter?
She slowly got up and woodenly walked towards the wardrobe and took out her suitcase, and with a shock, Kevin asked urgently, “Bella, where are you going?”
“I’m going to stay at the beach house for a few days.”
After numbly packing a few clothes, she turned and stepped out of the bedroom with her suitcase, and Kevin stopped her, “So can’t you forgive me?”
“Do you think I can be generous enough to tell you right now that it’s okay, and you just make someone pregnant? Can I say that?”
Bella coldly retorted. Kevin was speechless. She lowered her head and glumly went downstairs. Kevin also wanted to stop her, but was stopped by her father, “Let her calm down.”
“Yeah, your father is right. What happened is too much for any woman to bear. Now is the time to let her be alone, calm down, and sort out her messy thoughts.”
Kevin was in great pain. He rubbed his forehead, already exhausted from the chaos of his life.
“Don’t worry. Bella is a strong child. She will handle it.”
Inside the villa by the seaside, it was filled with sadness. Bella gazed at the spacious bedroom. She was still here having sex with Kevin just that night not long ago. But in only a few months, there was a drastic change. That night she confidently decided to face the difficulties with Kevin, but now … The plans were never able to catch up with the changes. Sometimes the changes were really beyond the scope of what she could bear.
If it was just a simple one-night stand, she might be able to be relieved after her heartbreak. But now there was a child. Did she want to join forces with Kevin to deal with an innocent child? She couldn’t be cruel like that, and at the same time, she wasn’t able to raise her rival’s child. It was not that she was careful, but any woman couldn’t do that.
Facing a rival’s child every day like facing the rival herself, making her feel miserable after thinking about it.
When she saw that child all the time, she would think of the fact that he was the evidence of her husband’s betrayal. Whether he was helpless or not, the result was that the child was already there.
Bella fell onto her couch, finally unable to contain herself and lost control and cried out loud.
Her fate was bitter. What was she supposed to do? How many times must her heart be destroyed before it is scarred …
This night, she was in floods of tears, sitting alone in the dark. During the whole night, she did not feel afraid again. When life was full of dangers everywhere, what else was there to make her feel terrible?
The next day, Blanche came to the villa with her maids, and once she saw her daughter-in-law’s haggard face, she grasped her hand in distress, “Bella, don’t be sad anymore. If you go on like this, your health might break down. Then my son will also break down. He is now completely fluctuating with your emotions. You’re such poor children, really breaking my heart …”
“I’m sorry.”
“What are you sorry for, silly girl? The one who should say sorry is me. It’s our family that’s sorry for you.”
Blanche hurriedly said to the maid, “Bring the food over.”
The maid put the blues brought in her hand on the coffee table and brought out several stacks of exquisite delicacies, “Young lady, no matter how uncomfortable you feel, you still need to eat the food.”
Bella shook her head, “I don’t want to eat.”
“You can’t be wayward. Your body doesn’t belong to you alone. Be good, for the sake of mom’s goodwill, eat something.”
“Yes, it’s all prepared for you by Mrs. Jones-Sharp herself. She hasn’t cooked for many years.”
Bella saw her mother-in-law’s eyes were full of expectation. She could not bear to refuse an old man’s intentions. Trembling, she took the rice served by the maid and ate it. Her lips were pale and dry. Her cheeks also seemed to have grown thinner overnight, and under her long eyelashes were dark circles. Blanche looked at her daughter-in-law, and could not help but feel very sad, sighing helplessly and saying, “Bella, you know my son’s feelings for you better than anyone else. A man who would rather run away from home than have sex with another woman would never betray you, and besides, you can’t believe Freya’s word. Is she really pregnant with Kevin’s child just because she says she’s pregnant? Whether it is his child or not, we will have to wait until the test is done in three months.”
“I never doubted that he would betray me. The question before us now is not a betrayal but a child, and if that child is really his. Tell me, mother, what should I do?”
Blanche was startled. She hadn’t thought about this issue carefully. She said after thinking for a moment, “Even if it’s his child, you don’t have to worry. Your father-in-law and I will deal with it.”
Bella didn’t speak, because she knew in her heart that it would be another story at that time.
Inside the Gold Club, Kevin sat on the sofa in depression, looking directly at the woman opposite him, and coldly spoke, “Abort the child.”
Freya looked at him in shock and yelled angrily, “What are you talking about? It’s your baby!”
“I don’t care who this baby belongs to. I’ll tell you to abort it, and while I can still talk to you properly, be sensible and say yes, or …”
He looked at her coldly, “You will pay for your paranoid behavior today.”
Freya was completely enraged. She stood up and roared hysterically, “I’m not going to have an abortion. I’ll see what you can do to me! If you want Bella to forgive you, you let me abort my child. I can tell you plainly that you’re dreaming! We’ll see who the final winner is!”
Kevin stared at her back as she turned away. His fists clenched tightly together. Blood vessel stood out after another on the back of his hand.
He had been sitting in the clubhouse until dark. Out of the door of the clubhouse, he did not want to go home. Without Bella at home, every minute and every second was torment. Driving unknowingly to the beach, looking at the villa towering in front of him, the window that penetrated the dark yellow light, his eyes slowly were wet with tears.
He had never felt so far away from Bella as he did now. He wanted to walk in and hug his beloved wife so much, but he knew that the last person she wanted to see right now was him.
He didn’t want to leave. But he just stood so quietly, even if he was very lonely, it was better than returning home desolately.
The wind was blowing. Bella went to the window, stretched out her slender wrist, ready to pull the curtain, but inadvertently, saw a haggard figure in the dark. Even if it was very dark, she could clearly distinguish that was her husband Kevin.
Without hesitation, she drew the curtain. The last light in front of the window also disappeared, and there was darkness all around. Only the sea in the distance made a few angry shrieks from time to time as if it was full of resentment towards the world.
Kevin stood until the wee hours of the morning before returning to the car. He slept in the car for the second half of the night and then drove the car to the office at dawn, and for three nights after that, it had been like this.
Even if he couldn’t see her but just saw a few glances at the light reflected from her house, he felt a little better in his heart, and could barely sleep for a few hours. Otherwise, he was unable to close his eyes for a minute.
Bella knew he had been standing in front of her window for four nights in a row, but she did not go out once. She wouldn’t forgive him every time with a smile.
On the fifth night, there was a tornado. Even with the window closed, the sound of the sea roaring outside could be heard. The lavender curtains were blown by the gale through the window. Bella lay on the bed, staring woodenly at the incandescent light on the ceiling. She knew clearly that Kevin must be outside at this time. Even if the lights were turned off, he would not leave.
The gale lasted for nearly three hours before it finally gradually subsided, but in a short while, it rained heavily. The rainwater banged on the doors and windows, making Bella extremely disturbed.
She lifted the quilt out of bed, slowly walked to the window, and opened one side of the curtain to look out. Kevin was even still there. His body had been wet by the rain, but he was like a big tree as still.
She closed her eyes and went to bed again, forcing herself to fall asleep quickly. The more she pushed herself, the more she couldn’t sleep, and as soon as she closed her eyes, it was as if she saw Kevin standing in the rain, missing her bitterly …