My smile faltered as I subconsciously turned toward John and said, “John, even Summer could understand the theory. Stop living in a world of your own.”

He pressed his lips together and didn’t respond.

As a normally quiet person, Hannah never spoke much either.

After the meal, when we moved to have tea in the yard, Summer pestered Hannah to look at the flowers at the rear of the house.

As I sat across John, I decided not to beat around the bush. “When do you plan to hold the wedding?” I asked.

He furrowed his brows. “What wedding?”

“Your wedding with Ms. Anne, of course. Are you planning to get a marriage certificate after she has given birth?”

He shrugged nonchalantly and replied, “I don’t plan to get married. I do want the child since it’s mine, but I have no plans to marry her. After the delivery, I’ll give her a sum of money and transfer the guardianship of the child under you. It’s the same thing as when Summer was transferred to you.”

of anger. Had it not been because the tea in my hands was

into a single-parent family? Moreover, what’s so bad about Hannah? She’s elegant and magnanimous. The only reason you could degrade her this way is because

a leisure tone, “She wants money—I’ll give her money. She gives birth to my child, and I give her money in return—is that not

I—

hold back, I splashed the cup of tea in my hand in his direction and yelled, “Stop dreaming! I won’t raise your child. Since you’ve decided to keep it, as

In an attempt to suppress my anger, I whirled around and headed

since I last got that agitated. Bumping into Ashton, who had just come down from the second floor, he questioned, “What

all good-for-nothing!” I answered furiously, having

short while later, when I’d calmed my emotions, he chuckled.

at him somewhat

about John

missed it, he’ll never find it again. Rather than cherishing the gem he has, he’s decided

and said gently, “Are you mad because he doesn’t know how to cherish

It took a while for me to find my voice and said, “His feelings for me aren’t romantic but like siblings. It’s just that he’s

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