Under Bella’s persuasion, Kevin promised to stop looking for Freya. He hugged her and said, “Bella, thank you for staying by my side. Thank you for trusting me. I really appreciate it.”
From that day onwards, Bella couldn’t leave home, except for going to meeting with her uncle once who suddenly came to meet her in B City. No matter whoever asked her out, she refused one by one and didn’t tell anyone that her marriage was in crisis.
Even her best friend, Alice, didn’t know what happened to her and only treated her as if she was resting at home. They occasionally called each other or chatted on QQ.
Bella was very bitter in her heart but she didn’t mention it to anyone. Because she didn’t think others have the obligation to listen to her troubles.
Two months passed very quickly. The days at the end of the month, she couldn’t sleep well throughout the night. Every time she just fell asleep, she dreamed of Freya standing in front of her with her big belly and smiling proudly. So every time she woke up, she was in a cold sweat and she felt as if she was about to go to pieces.
Even so, she was still trying to make preparations to face the difficulties with Kevin.
In the midst of her frightening torment, Freya returned, standing in Jones-Sharp family’s living room. Bella stared at her slightly bulging abdomen, her hand unconsciously moving to her own abdomen. When would she be able to conceive a baby …
Kevin stared at her angrily and wanted to rush forward, but was pulled by Bella, “Believe in yourself. Don’t let her see your guilt again.”
Blanche stood up from the sofa, “So, Miss Macadam came this time to ask for a paternity test.”
“Yes.”
Freya nodded without being humble.
“Well then, let’s go, but I’ll make it clear in advance. We won’t disown if it’s a child of our family, and if it’s not, I will not let you go for the trouble you’ve caused our family.”
“Yes, if it’s not your family’s child, you can do everything to deal with me as you wish.”
Freya righteously stood up and took the lead out of the living room door. Bella stared at her confident back, only to feel nervous.
“Aren’t you guys going?”
Patrick timidly asked his son and daughter-in-law.
“I’m not going!”
As Kevin coldly refused, Patrick sighed, “How are we going to do the paternity test if you don’t go?”
As he looked askance at his daughter-in-law, Bella said, enduring her heartache, “Go ahead, from the beginning, this is not a problem that can be avoided.”
Only Bella could persuade Kevin, so he held her hand, “Can you accompany me?”
“I won’t go.”
She didn’t want to go, and Kevin wouldn’t force her. After all, it was already cruel to her for something like this to happen.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the appraisal results, the couple had done the test at three separate authoritative institutions, and Freya was so frank that before the results didn’t come out, the couple started to believe that it was indeed their Jones-Sharp family’s child.
After paying a high price, in the evening, the results of the three institutions came out, and all the results confirmed that it was Kevin’s child. Looking at such a result, Patrick and his wife both had mixed feelings. Kevin grabbed Freya’s collar angrily and growled, “I was in a coma that night. What method did you use to conceive my child?”
“Do I need to go into more detail about the most primitive methods?”
Freya looked askance at his parents standing behind him, and Kevin gnashed and said, “Don’t think that I can’t let you get what you want for being a mother!”
He glared at her in disgust and turned around to leave with finality.
Blanche walked up to Freya and said solemnly, “Since the results are out, let’s talk.”
They went to a nearby cafe and began a serious negotiation face to face.
“I’ve already said before that we’ll be responsible if it is really our family’s child. Now that it’s proven that the child is indeed my son’s. Then you can make a price. We’ll buy the child no matter how much it costs.”
Freya mocked and laughed, “You guys are really vulgar. Do you think you can buy anything with money? I have just one condition. Let me marry into the Jones-Sharp family.”
This time it was Blanche who laughed sarcastically, “We are vulgar, but don’t you think you are dreaming? As you can see, my son doesn’t have any feelings for you anymore. Do you think he will agree to marry you?”
“That depends on whether you want the child in my belly or not. Yes, he likes Bella now, but she can’t have children. A family like yours must keep your family line alive. You can’t have your cake, and eat it. If you want a child, you have to give up your daughter-in-law. You think about it yourselves.”
She stood up, no longer wanting to say too much, and turned to leave when Patrick spoke up, “Even if we let you marry into our family, do you think your life will be easier? You’ve been in love with my son, you should know what kind of person he is. He won’t make it easy for you.”
“Then you don’t have to worry. Even if he can’t accept it for a moment, he will gradually accept me after I give birth to his child. There is no hatred equal to the happiness of one’s family.”
Freya took out an ultrasound sheet from her bag and confidently placed it in front of Patrick and his wife, “Take a look. I spent a large sum of money to have a doctor do the sex of the fetus for me. I think this will help you make a wiser choice.”
She smiled and left, and the couple stared at the gender of the fetus on the ultrasound sheet, feeling the contradictions and struggles. It was a boy …
Freya, who was standing outside the glass window of the cafe, saw the expressions on their faces and smiled proudly. She was just seeing the importance of this child and that was why she was so confident from the beginning.
Three years ago, Patrick forced her away, so she held the anger. But now that she was back and pregnant with their family’s child. She could imagine the frustration in Patrick’s heart but had to accept the reality of helplessness. Thinking of it, she was cheerful.
Not surprisingly, the next morning, Blanche called her, asked her to come out to meet her, and then brought her to a private hospital and paid off the doctor to do an ultrasound for her. The test turned out that it was indeed a boy.
As Freya wiped the mucus from her stomach, she said, “Do you believe it now? I wouldn’t dare to lie to your Jones-Sharp family.”
After leaving the hospital, Freya parted ways with Blanche on the pretext of something. Then she called Bella.
Bella was depressed in her room when she received the call. Last night Kevin came back, she didn’t ask about the results while he didn’t say anything either. Then the answer was self-evident. If it wasn’t Kevin’s child, he wouldn’t have kept silent anyway.
Although she had been prepared, she was still heartbroken at the moment when she knew it. Kevin looked sadder than she was, so she had to hide her pain and comfort him in turn. They spent that long night hugging each other.
During that time, Kevin shed many tears and finally said, “The child is mine.”
She nodded, “Well, I’ll try to raise him as my own.”
That was all they said in one night. After that, it was a silence that was even longer than the night. Sometimes it was always easier to say than to do, and Bella wasn’t sure if she could do what she wanted to say, but at that time, in order to comfort Kevin, she could only say that. Of course, she would try to work on that.
“Hello?”
“It’s me, Freya.”
“What can I do for you?”
“Come out and meet me.”
“Where.”
Freya was stunned, not expecting her to agree so readily.
“The Red Rose Ladies Club.”
“Okay.”
Hanging up the phone, Bella changed her clothes and applied a delicate light makeup. No matter how distraught she was now, she didn’t want to look bad in front of her rival.
Her face was very pale, and she applied some rouge to have a good complexion.
Lips were dry, so she put on a coat of bright lip gloss in an attempt to make herself look radiant.
Not every woman was made to look pleasing for her beholder. Bella was well aware that she was in a mess in front of her rival. Dressing up a little bit prettier was just a way to make herself look more energetic, so that she could deal with her rival who was now in a position to win.
She arrived at the appointed place on time. Freya was already waiting in the clubhouse as if to deliberately irritate her, she was wearing a very tight dress that exposed her bulging belly.
“You already know the results of the child’s DNA test, right?”
“Yes.”
“So what are you going to do?”
“You give birth to the child, and I’ll raise it for you.”
Freya was like hearing the most ridiculous joke in the world, “You are really self-righteous. I will give birth to the child. Why should an outsider raise it?!”
“Then take your child and get out of here.”
“You’re the one who should get out! A woman can’t be pregnant and still occupies the position in Jones-Sharp family. Is there someone as shameless as you? Do you have to see the Jones-Sharp family have no family line?”
“Who on earth has no shame? Using despicable means to conceive someone’s child, now you still have the nerve to show off. You’re really like your mother. With your genes like that, you are not suitable for pregnancy at all, because the child born will only destroy someone else’s family after growing up.”
Freya was infuriated by her sharp language and suddenly sneered, “I’m just despicable. How about you? Do you know how I got pregnant with this baby?”
“I don’t want to know.”
“But what if I want to say? I’ll tell you that night, there were two kinds of drugs in your husband’s juice. One was a sleeping pill and the other was an aphrodisiac. Originally I wanted to put only this one drug, but I was worried that he would be stubborn to be faithful to you, so I added the sleeping pill again to be on the safe side. I have been taking ovulation stimulating drugs for the past month, so I was easily pregnant with his child. “