True Love Waits

Chapter 1195 Take You To Court

Tessie bit her lower lip and made a choice.

After parting with Tessie, Tam walked towards his daughter. Julianna immediately grabbed his arm and pulled him to her side. "Dad, stay away from Miss Troublemaker, okay? You don't know how much of a bitch Erica is. Look at Tessie and the state she's in. That's thanks to Erica!"

"Erica?" Tam glanced back at the car, where Erica was waiting, leaning against the passenger door. "What did she do?"

"Erica got Tessie drunk, took her to the sink and tried to drown her. She even took off Tessie's clothes and took pictures of her to blackmail her. Erica did even worse shit, but Tessie wouldn't tell us! She said it hurt too much to remember!" Julianna said angrily.

Tam said nothing. He was listening, and mentally trying to poke holes in Tessie's story.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Erica finally saw Tessie come over. She looked into Tessie's eyes, red from crying. After a tense moment between them, she broke the silence. "I didn't do anything to you! Just what the hell is going on?"

Tessie's voice was a bit shaky. "I'm sorry, Erica. This is all my fault. You remember how difficult labor was, right? After you took the kid away, I got better, but..." She lowered her head and looked at her shoes. "I lost my memory. I couldn't remember a thing until three months ago. I could remember how to do basic things like tying my shoes or getting dressed, but I didn't know who I was..."

Tessie had thought about this a lot. She'd gone over it a thousand times. She had to make sure her story was perfect, even if it was made up.

"You lost your memory?" Erica was dumbfounded by her explanation. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Yes, the doctor said that I lost my memory because of a screw-up when they gave me the epidural. They said I moved too much and the needle slipped and damaged the nerves."

Erica chose to believe her, mainly because her story seemed to make sense. "Well, then why is everyone saying I hurt you? What's up with that?"

Tessie burst into tears and sobbed, "I'm sorry, Erica. If I didn't say that, my parents would have found out what happened. They'd never let me stay here if they knew I had a kid. I didn't mean it. I'm sorry. Please forgive me!" She grabbed Erica's hand, a pitiful expression on her face.

They slept in the same bed, shared food, wore the same clothes, and used the

laughed and

the sadness in her heart and asked, "Then why didn't you call me? Text me? You got your memories back, right? You must have heard I was going to marry Matthew." Three months ago,

kill me if they found out I had a baby! No father in the picture, no husband, either!" "That's it? That's why you didn't try to get a hold of me? I thought you were dead! I cried every day! Do

of them living in a basement. Erica never left the country-she knew the place like the back

six months, the baby bump was not obvious. And she knew how to hide it. She wore bigger clothes, bulky, shapeless sweaters, leggings, black tights,

long because Wesley and Gifford had their people looking for her ever since

of the night, she would still bump into

the ideal place to have

the basement and went back into hiding for a

weeks were a

the thought of it. "Do you think 'sorry' is going to cut it? Like I can forgive this easily? Tessie, do you know what

or how to help him. Sometimes, he'd cry for hours. She tried her best to calm him down, but he

some money to a elderly mute

takeout every day, and sometimes the old lady would give her a bowl of rice. She made do for a month before

hugged her. "Erica, it's all my fault. I'm sorry. I'll make up to you in the future. Don't be angry,

back. He's with my parents, and they love him like their own. I named him Feb Wu at first, and Dad

Li, Ethan..." She also missed

to let it go. She was stupid and made friends with the wrong person. Life was too short to spend

Tessie, and I will never do something like that

walked away, and didn't spare Tessie another