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.

as Meryl was about to leave, she turned

turned

wondered if he

to a glimmer of hope.

had overheard Meryl’s words to the

up safe and sound, with

the name I chosen

No

of my feelings for

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softly, reaching out to touch her

“Dalton, this is

that, she walked past

Dalton frowned.

meantime, the nanny had already woken

noticing the nanny’s curious gaze. He didn’t want to risk

on Meryl’s door when he heard Meryl inside, humming a lullaby to

voice was soothing, and

not want to disturb

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

greeted him, “Uncle Chandler”

fell on the child in Dalton’s arms, and his eyes

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Dalton

lydor’s

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was challenging, “Unde Chandler, this is any rom. I

home, did not go to spend time with his wife

was indeed a serious

name was similar to

a

flaunting the fact that

his

smirked and asked, “Uncle Chandler, what’s going on between you and

could respond, the baby in Dalton’s arms began

to cry.

quickly excused himself to soothe the

was left seething.

pushing him to his limit.

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him about the baby, and now he was flaunting it.

hadn’t exposed the truth was to protect

the scandal broke, she would be

him but bearing Dalton’s child, she would be drowned in gossip.

pushed the door open without knocking.

the baby, looked up in

extended

grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his

her body

him. He must have just finished smoking

waist, holding

voice low, “did you come back to the villa to

just imagining things. Everything was becoming more

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of control, so he had to make such a

frowned, confused. “What nonsense

why Chandler suddenly

and Dalton time and again,

between him and