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

this far. And..." I paused. "You weren't lan's only close friend. There's Derick and a few others. Why are you the only one so

his face when he replied, "Because I

guilt and remorse after lan's death, I asked, "Chris, did you do something

Chris called my name coldly. "Do you really have to

because it's affecting me no... I pressed my

wife, let's break up.

have to be torn between me and Jewel. Besides... you're not interested in me. Why make things hard on

this, I realized how deeply his words

asked, "Do you really want to break up? Are you

sure,"

it," Chris stated before he turned around and threw the

the trash

the discarded

had told me not

his true

which was why he felt he could hurt me over and

things between Chris and me had fallen apart, I

working as usual. But now, my work included wrapping things up and handing over