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.”
been because the tea in my hands was
so bad about Hannah? She’s elegant and magnanimous. The only reason you could degrade her this way is
her money. She gives birth to my child, and I give her money in return—is that not taking responsibility? Besides, I’m sure you’ll dote on the child the same way
I—
“Stop dreaming! I won’t raise your child. Since you’ve decided to keep it,
In an attempt to suppress my anger, I whirled
time since I last got that agitated. Bumping into Ashton, who had just come down from the second floor, he
answered furiously, having
later, when I’d calmed my emotions, he
looking at him somewhat awkwardly.
John and Ms. Anne?” He
Hannah, once he has missed it, he’ll never find it again. Rather than cherishing the gem he
“Are you mad because
his fervent gaze. It took a while for me to find my
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