Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 12

His expression stiffened slightly. "Given the situation last night, I was afraid something might happen to her. You know lan was his parents' only child.

Now, Jewel's baby is their entire hope. If anything were to happen..."

I understood his unfinished sentence.

"So, from now on, anything related to her will always be your priority, right?" I asked coldly.

Chris was silent for two seconds. "Things will be different once the baby is

born."

I started to laugh. As I turned, the newly risen sun stung my eyes.

"Chris." I looked at him. "There will be other problems after the baby is born. The baby might get sick or have accidents. As long as you use this child as an excuse, you and Jewel will always be in some kind of entanglement, and I will always be the one you abandon."

Chris fell silent at my words.

I made my stance clear. "Chris, if we get married, I don't want my husband to be taking care of another woman every other day."

give me some time. I'll sort this out." Chris' eyes

far. And..." I paused. "You weren't lan's only close friend. There's Derick and a few others. Why

he replied, "Because I was the only

guilt and remorse after lan's death,

called my name coldly. "Do you really have

me no... I

wife, let's break up.

and Jewel. Besides... you're not interested in

how deeply his words from that day had hurt

asked, "Do you really want to

sure," I

stated before he turned around and threw the

the trash

I stared at the discarded white

me

three words revealed his true thoughts. He probably

felt he could hurt me over and over

things between Chris and me had

so I had to continue working as usual. But now, my work included wrapping things up