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

let your child be born 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 she loves you. Don’t wait for the day when she has given up that you

the chair, speaking in 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

I—

direction and yelled, “Stop dreaming! I won’t raise your child. Since you’ve

my anger, I whirled around and headed toward

a long time since I last got that agitated. Bumping into Ashton, who had just come down

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

when I’d calmed

looking at him somewhat awkwardly.

it about John and Ms. Anne?”

woman such as Hannah, once he has missed it, he’ll never find it again.

outreached, he took me aside to rest on a chair and said gently, “Are you mad because he doesn’t know how to cherish her or because of

find my voice and said, “His feelings for me

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255