Chapter 5
Not only Dylan, but everyone was stunned.
My mother rushed over to hug me, sobbing uncontrollably.
“My silly daughter! You…”
Mila immediately pushed the still–sniffling Mandy aside and ran up to me in delight.
“Emilia, you’re pregnant! That’s wonderful! I knew it–you two can’t split. up!”
I had thought that when Dylan found out about the baby, he would be angry, that he would force me to get rid of it.
Purchase completed
That way, we could cut all ties completely.
But as he held that lab report, there wasn’t a trace of displeasure in his eyes–only overwhelming, unbridled joy:
He forgot about Mandy beside him, his voice trembling. “I… I’m going to be a dad?”
He rushed over, wanting to hug me. He grinned like a child.
As if nothing had ever happened between us.
As if we were still that happy couple.
But behind him stood Mandy, her face as pale as a sheet.
On his wrist still lingered the scent of another woman.
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And that ring, fallen to the ground at the wedding.
In the hospital, he blurted out, “She needs me.”
They all reminded me that we could never go back.
I pushed him away, looked at his ecstatic face, and said, word by word, “Dylan, you’re getting ahead of yourself.
“For this child, I already scheduled an abortion when you begged me not to make a scene for Mandy’s sake.”
“No!”
Dylan and Mila shouted in unison.
Dylan, who was always calm and self–possessed, finally lost his
composure.
“Emilia, don’t be willful. Listen to me.”
“I’m not being willful. From the moment you left me and ran out of the wedding venue, we were already over.”
Before Dylan could say anything else, Mandy beside him suddenly burst
into tears.
“Emilia, it’s all my fault. Don’t blame Mr. Degnan! I shouldn’t… have relied on him, I shouldn’t have caused him trouble!
“I deserve to die!”
With that, she turned and ran out.
Dylan instinctively moved to chase after her. He looked at me, his expression complicated. “Emilia, Mandy’s emotions are really unstable. I’m afraid she’ll do something stupid. You calm down first, and we’ll talk about the baby later.”
Chapter 5
He was leaving again.
Mila grabbed him tightly. “Dylan! Are you crazy? That one’s a ticking
time bomb, and here you have your wife and child! Can’t you tell which is more important?”
But you could never wake someone who was pretending to sleep.
Dylan broke free from Mila’s hand and frowned. “Mom, that’s a human life!”
The room fell deathly silent.
He cast a guilty glance at me, then still chased after her.
He had forgotten.
Mandy’s life mattered.
The one in my belly was also a human life.
I took my mother and left that house without looking back.
That night, Dylan knelt downstairs in front of my house through a heavy rain, all night long.
The next morning, my mother accompanied me to the hospital.
When I opened the door, Dylan, who had been kneeling all night, struggled to his feet and blocked my way.
“Emilia, where are you going?”
He was soaked to the bone, looking utterly disheveled, with bloodshot
eyes.
I was fed
up with his post–facto attempts to make amends.
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If he truly cared, how could he have left me time and time again?
Dylan clung to me, refusing to let me go to the hospital.
Holding up his phone, he swore to me. “Emilia, look, I’ve already transferred Mandy’s case to someone else. This is the handover record that was completed this morning. From now on, I’ll have no more contact with her.
“I swear, I only love you and our baby. Let’s start over, okay?”
I took his phone and smashed it hard on the ground.
“Dylan, it’s too late.”
He looked at me in agony, almost breaking down. “Why? Emilia, I’ve done what you asked. Why won’t you believe me?”
He still didn’t understand. This was never about trust.
Our relationship had been tainted because of that woman.
I didn’t want to waste any more words on him, so I turned to leave.
He hugged me from behind, his voice pleading.
“Emilia!”
He suddenly dropped to one knee in front of me.
The ring that had fallen at the wedding reappeared in his palm.
“Marry me! Let’s go to City Hall right now to get our marriage license, and give our child a complete home.”
