Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 731 No Baby Anymore

Lydia noticed that Meryl hadn’t brought the baby out, so she deliberately asked, “Meryl, where’s your son? Why don’t you bring him out so we can all see him?”

Meryl was worried that with so many people in the Aniston Villa, the newborn might be exposed to germs.

Moreover, the baby was born prematurely and had just undergone surgery, so she had to be extra cautious.

“The baby’s asleep,” Meryl replied calmly. “There’s nothing much to see right now. There’ll be plenty of time later. No need to rush.”

Lydia’s attempt to provoke her fell flat, and her expression darkened.

She had hoped to needle Meryl with a few sarcastic remarks, but she didn’t take the bait.

Meryl said, “Lydia, you’re a mother too. You should understand how important it is to be careful with a child.”

Her words, spoken in a matronly tone, only deepened Lydia’s irritation.

However, in the Aniston Villa, Lydia knew better than to argue too openly.

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She nodded and replied, “You’re right, Meryl. I’ll keep that in

mind.”

In the afternoon, Meryl gazed at the baby sleeping soundly in the crib, lost in thought, “How could I swap the two children without anyone noticing?”

Just as she was pondering this, she heard some commotion outside.

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It seemed Lydia had gone to the hospital to have her fractured bone checked.

Meryl’s eyes lit up.

Lydia wouldn’t take the baby with her to the hospital.

This was her chance.

The Aniston Villa was very quiet in the afternoon.

There was only the nanny to take care of the child.

Exhausted from tending to the baby at night, the nanny had likely dozed off while the baby slept.

Meryl tiptoed to the nursery.

After making sure the nanny was asleep, she quietly took her son from the crib.

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Then she went back to the room, swapped the babies‘ clothes, and placed the other child back in the crib.

As she left, Meryl cast a lingering glance at the baby in the

cradle.

There was a faint trace of reluctance in her eyes,

“Grow up safe and sound, Marlon Aniston.”

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Marlon, who had spent his early days in the neonatal unit, was quiet and well–behaved, rarely crying and sleeping peacefully after feeding.

If he could make it to five years old, he would have a chance at survival.

leave, she turned and saw Dalton standing behind

turned pale.

wondered if he had

from confusion to a glimmer of

overheard Meryl’s words to

my son to grow up safe and sound, with mixed emotions

chosen for my son finally made

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the depth of my feelings for her?”

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softly, reaching out to

hand. “Dalton, this is the Aniston Villa. Mind your

that, she walked past him.

Dalton frowned.

nanny had already woken

noticing the nanny’s curious gaze.

and was about to knock on Meryl’s door when he heard Meryl inside, humming a lullaby

was soothing, and Chandler

not want to

to the living room and was about to sit on the sofa for a while when he

greeted him, “Uncle

gaze fell on the child in Dalton’s arms,

No

Dalton and

lydor’s

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is any rom. I named him Marion

to spend time

there was indeed a

made sure the baby’s name was similar to Meryl.

were a blatant provocation.

thought, “Was he flaunting the fact that both women

his fists.

“Uncle Chandler, what’s going on between

the baby in Dalton’s

to cry.

himself to soothe the

was left

repeated provocations were pushing him to his limit.

No

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confronted him about the baby, and now

hadn’t exposed the truth was to protect Meryl.

the scandal broke, she would be

Dalton’s child, she would be drowned

came to the room and pushed the

settled the baby, looked up in surprise.

word, Chandler extended a hand towards

wrist and pulled

against him, her body pressed against his.

nicotine on him. He must have just

gripped her waist, holding her firmly in

his voice low, “did you come back

just imagining things. Everything was becoming

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control, so he had to make such a

confused. “What nonsense are you talking about?”

why Chandler suddenly said this.

between herself and Dalton time and again, and

between him and me,” Meryl said.