"Don't cry, honey. You know what they say, it's all about fate between parents and their children..."

"Really?"

Sherilyn's tears momentarily paused. Could it be because her intentions were impure? Did the baby know it was brought into this world to save its sister and thus, resisted? Even if it came into existence, it refused to stay in her womb?

"Ah..."

Sherilyn closed her eyes in pain, "My baby, my child... Mommy is so sorry... I couldn't keep you..."

Bang! The door to the hospital room burst open!

Gilbert, tall and imposing, stood at the entrance, unmovable.

"Gilbert..." Sherilyn was stunned, unable to believe her eyes. How could he be here? Wasn't he supposed to be thousands of miles away in London?

He had returned?

But hadn't he said it would take at least a week?

And yet, it had only been a few days?

Gilbert, with a stoic face, fixed his gaze on Sherilyn, stepping closer until he stood right in front of her.

His eyes, unblinking and stern, bore into hers without any pleasantries, "You just said something about not being able to keep the child. What did you mean?"

taken aback, rendered

"Nothing to say?"

sell off your properties and shift your

How did he find

expressions and gaze said it

"Huh."

way back from London, I kept wondering, what could possibly make you want to move your

"Sherilyn, don't tell me, you were planning to leave me and run

tightly, "Look

"The truth?"

with his interrogation, Sherilyn's already low spirit broke entirely, her eyes reddening, "You already know

"!!"

struck as if by

it? She was indeed

and affectionate

Gilbert

bitterly, "So, these past

been putting on

right moment to leave me, to leave Sunhaven! You never

held her chin high, meeting

"You!"

hitched, shock and pain evident, "Fine,

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