CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

However, their method turned out to involve paying with their lives as well.

Natalie couldn't bring herself to tell Joyce's parents to go through with that method, so it seemed that the grudge between the two families would never be resolved.

Natalie took a deep breath and patted Caitlin on the hand as she said, “I understand what you and Mr. Rivers plan on doing, but I hope that you two will not go through with that plan. Joyce tried to kill herself in order to settle the grudge between both families, and look how much pain her action has caused the two of you. Had you two killed yourselves, Joyce would surely suffer even if she were able to find a new lover and start up a new family.”

“Nat is right. I'm sure there's another way to resolve this issue, so please don't do anything rash.” Shane, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up all of a sudden.

The two kids nodded in unison as well.

Caitlin and Jonathan exchanged glances upon hearing that. They felt touched when they saw how worried Natalie and her family members were.

“Don't worry, you two. We understand what you mean, so we won't do anything rash for now. Joyce still needs us, after all!” Jonathan said with a forced smile.

Caitlin nodded. “Yeah, that's right! We won't do anything rash!”

Now, let's go check on Joyce, shall we?”

the way and entered the ward

was lying on the bed with her eyes tightly shut, and her face was so pale that she looked like

left hand was wrapped in thick bandages, and she had an IV drip hooked up to transfer blood into her body. It pained them greatly to see her in such a haggard

fact, her artery was completely severed. Had we found her even a little bit

mixture of heartache and anger when she

what Joyce had done to herself, but she also felt angry at how well Joyce

suspected a thing about her planning on committing

Rivers, is Joyce's baby all right?” Natalie

nodded. “Yes, her baby's fine. To be honest, I was thinking of having the doctor abort the baby when I first found out about it. I assumed she got pregnant because she was raped by some scumbag, and I didn't want her keeping his child. However, the doctor said Joyce had lost too much blood from her suicide attempt, so she probably wouldn't survive the abortion procedure. In the end, we decided to keep the baby for the time being. The

Natalie nodded in

the father, would you still want her to abort the child?

That question caught both Jonathan