“Louis provided the evidence that proved I’m innocent.”
Though within her expectation, Bella was delightful after hearing the news as it showed that she didn’t misjudge Louis.
“What evidence did Louis provided so that you get rid of the suspicion of murdering his mother?”
“Celeste did see her son before she died. She not only transferred a huge amount of money to her son’s account but also gave Louis her stock of a company in France. Back then, Louis was very confused about what his mother was doing but didn’t expect that his mother was putting her affair in order. Besides, she left a letter to her son, and Louis received it a month later after she died. That letter was what Louis has handed to the procuratorate…”
“What was that about? Have you read it?”
“No, I haven’t. It’s said that it was a confession letter. The first half confessed that she didn’t perform her motherhood duties, and the other half was negative talking, which included ‘Farewell, my son. I will make up to you with my death.’
It suddenly dawned on Bella. This letter could definitely prove that Celeste killed herself instead of being murdered. Maybe out of great excitement, she even jumped up, “Justice will always prevail, justice will always prevail. I knew the truth will come to light one day.”
“Oh, man, don’t jump, babe, justice will prevail, but you shouldn’t jump…”
“What’s wrong?”
“Stomachache…”
“Stomachache? Why you got a stomachache?” Kevin was panicked.
Her mother-in-law immediately found that her daughter-in-law’s thighs were flowing amniotic fluid, exclaiming, “Oh my god, she is about to give birth. Come on, come on, let’s go to the hospital, take the car!!”
“Honey, hang in there, please hang in there…”
“Bella, don’t be afraid, we’re heading to the hospital right now!”
The family was in chaos, they were all panicked, and the fire basin was kicked far away by Kevin.
Two hours later, Bella gave birth to a boy and a girl by Caesarean section at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital. The two healthy and beautiful babies, as others put it, the joy of a family.
Blanche was very delightful and Kevin was ecstatic. He shouted in the hospital’s hallway, “I’m a dad now, I’m a dad now…”
Had it not been others who understood a family’s desire for a child, they would have regarded him as mad.
Waking up after the anesthesia, Bella saw Kevin on the side of her bed, scratching his head with a torn expression.
“Honey…”
She called out him weakly.
“Yes?” Kevin stooped down to her.
“Let me see our babies.”
Kevin took them to her, “See, our daughter looks like me, doesn’t she?”
“How could you tell when she is so little.”
Bella laughed, “Besides, our two babies are identical, you say the daughter looks like you, doesn’t that implies that the son looks like you, too? Then after I have been pregnant for ten months and suffered a lot to give birth to them, it seems that I don’t get any benefit?”
“No, you do. I love you so much now for bringing me the two lovely babies.”
“You can’t just say you love me, you have to show it with action.”
“Ok, when you are discharged from the hospital, I’ll let you sit on my shoulder, I’ll listen to you for the rest of my life.”
“Really?”
“I’m a man of my word.”
“Ok…”
A week later, Bella removed the stitches and went home. Once entering the gate of Cloud Mansion, she heard the sound of firecrackers and fireworks. The whole family was joyful. After Kevin’s case was settled, the two babies came into their family. Good things came in pair.
From this day, numerous people came to visit and congratulate them. Bella even got a blister in her mouth by saying thank you for this month.
At night, she complained this to Kevin, “Honey, see, I even got a blister.”
Kevin leaned over to see, “Oh, you do get a blister.”
“What should I do?”
“What can you do? I can only use my family’s secret recipe to get rid of it.”
“What? What family secret recipe? How come I don’t know…”
“Of course there is. Close your eyes, I help you right now.”
She closed her eyes, feeling a warming breath coming to her. Then the hot and familiar lips kissed her tenderly and slowly, kissing the little blister on the tip of her tongue
Her heart was as tender as water, kissing back at him. They were kissing fiercely and the two babies burst into cry at this moment.
“I guess they are hungry.”
Bella pushed away Kevin and picked up the one that cried most fiercely, opening her clothes to feed her immediately.
Then, she took the other after the first one was done.
With the ebb and flow of the four seasons, five months passed in a blink of an eye. The two babies who were the joy of the family have grown into chubby babies. Blanche loved her two grandchildren very much. After Bella stop breastfeeding, she hired three babysitters to take care of the children.
And now Bella could enjoy her free time.
On this day, she surprisingly received a call from Louis who wanted to ask her out.
It would be lying if she didn’t feel embarrassed at all. After all, Celeste’s death was a knot in the heart. Anyway, Bella went to see him on time.
Few months without seeing, Louis seemed to get much better and no longer looked haggard as she had seen him last time.
“What’s the matter you ask me out?” She asked prudently.
“I want to talk to you about something. Do you need to take care of the babies by yourself?”
“No, what’s going on?”She was confused.
“Could you do me a favor?”
“Ok, go ahead.”
“Alice has been pregnant for seven months and I want her to have more rest at home. But the school doesn’t have extra teachers, so…”
“I see, you want me to go back to teaching, don’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Ok, no problem!”
She agreed readily. That was a matter about Alice and Louis! She was willing to help them. There was no reason not to do it.
Louis nodded gratefully, “Thank you. Hope it won’t trouble you much.”
“You’re welcome.”
There was a moment they both felt embarrassed. Bella spat out a sentence with shyness, ”
Thank you.”
“For what?”
“Thank you for not letting me down, for providing the evidence and clearing my husband’s name.”
Louis forced a smile, “You should take the credit. You think I don’t know that it was your idea to ask Mr. Jobson to talk to me?”
Bella was a little abashed, asking curiously, “What did he tell you?”
“He said a lot. But what impressed me the most was one can’t remove hatred by hatred. Only mercy can melt hatred. Hiding the truth worsens the reality and shirking duties infects more people to take on an indifferent mentality.”
That day, Bella told Mr. Jobson’s words to Kevin, he exclaimed, “Mr. Jobsom is the mentor that influence a whole generation. His words are always meaningful.”
“Oh, right, honey, I promised Louis that I will go back to teaching from tomorrow.”
“What?”
Kevin jumped up, “Why didn’t you discuss this important matter with me?”
“That’s not an important matter, it’s just a job. And Alice is pregnant now, so there are not enough teachers at school.”
“Why he didn’t tell this to the education bureau? Why ask my wife to fill in that position?”
“I’m not to fill in, I was once a teacher at that school.”
“But didn’t you quit years ogo?!”
“I didn’t quit, I just have been suspended from duty without pay.”
“I don’t care which case it is. I disagree anyway.”
“Why?”
“Our babies are so little, how can you leave them?”
“They are served well by a bunch of people, even I, as their mom, can’t help much.”
“I still disagree, I’m going to collaborate with ADP company, and my company is short of staff, you can be my secretary, you have been suspended from that position, too.”
Hmm, Bella didn’t know how to react. Kevin always had a sense of strong desire for possession.
Though she didn’t have Kevin’s permission, Bella went to school the next day. Not surprisingly, when she came home at night, Kevin was very upset, losing his temper over her, “You disregarded my words?”
“I’ve promised Louis already, I can’t break my word.”
“Sounds like you are not the one to be blamed? It seems that I need to teach you a lesson today, otherwise, I’m no longer the head of the family.”
Kevin raised his hands. Before it fell, Bella held her head, howling, “Mom, help me, he is gonna hit me!!”
“…”
Kevin turned around out of anger. Bella saw his figure, exclaimed, “Who said I’m the one who likes to run away from home. Who wouldn’t do it when getting mad?”
A week later, Bella started to get anxious. Why? Because someone has been ignoring her since the night he failed to commit family abuse.
Lying on the bed gloomily, she called Alice and complain about her marriage life.
After hearing Bella’s complaining, Alice had a very insightful conclusion for her, “To sum it up, Kevin is not mad at you for not listening to him, you are facing a problem that all the married couple would encounter—the seven years itch.”
“Are you serious? We haven’t married for seven years yet.”
“The problem comes ahead of the time for you.”
“Then what should I do?”
“The best way is to do some romantic things and captivate him with your gentle maneuver.”
“Ok, I’ll try…”
The gentle maneuver, ok…the gentle maneuver…
On the weekend, she went to the railway station and bought porn, planning to make the move at night.
Going upstairs and taking a nice shower after dinner, she was wearing thin pajamas and posing seductively, waiting for Kevin to come in.