Mr. Jones was slightly startled and turned around abruptly.
There before him was Tom who, just yesterday, had been giving them the cold shoulder but now
approached him with a full-faced smile, extending his hand. “Nice to et you!”
Mr. Jones looked at him in a daze, “Mr. Davis?”
Tom said, “Did you bring the contract?”
Mr. Jones said, “…Yes, I did.”
“Good, let take a look at the contract. If there’s nothing wrong, let’s sign the agreent today!”
Mr. Jones followed Tom into the office in a daze and still felt like he was dreaming when he walked out
with the signed contract.
He returned ho in a daze.
Mrs. Jones saw his expression and thought the deal hadn’t gone through, so she imdiately asked,
“What happened? You weren’t chased out by the receptionist,
were you?”
Mr. Jones handed over the contract to her.
Mrs. Jones glanced at it and she, too, was stunned.
Mr. Jones looked at her. “Tell , what kind of person is your lifesaver from yesterday, exactly?”
Mrs. Jones touched her chin, pondered for a mont, and couldn’t help looking at him. “Is it because I
did a good deed, and this is my reward for being a good person?”
Mr. Jones nearly rolled his eyes. “Do you believe that?”
“No.”
Mr. Jones then said, “Forget it. Whatever their background is, our dealings with them aren’t for personal
gain anyway!”
Mrs. Jones was also open-minded. “That’s right!”
The next day, Keira didn’t take Amy to the early
education class.
Before, Keera had sent her there to avoid Howard’s mother, who was always scolding her at ho, and
later she also sent the child there as a trap for
–
Howard’s mother.
Now that she and Howard were divorced and the house had quieted down, she simply withdrew Amy
from that school.
A two-year-old child, who lacked a sense of security so much, needed to stay close to her mother.
Furthermore, since Christina’s sche hadn’t worked out, she was afraid sothing else might co
up, and she didn’t want Amy to always be aggrieved.
Hearing that she didn’t have to go to school anymore, Amy’s face blossod into a smile, and Keira
stayed ho to play with her for a while before receiving a video call from Mary.
Mary placed her phone on the coffee table. “Amy, c give your godmother a kiss!”
Amy then shyly smiled and buried her head into Keira’s
embrace.
Mary couldn’t help but complain. “Look, my goddaughter isn’t even close to anymore. Keera, it’s all
your fault for blocking for half a year…”
Keira wanted to make so excuses for her sister but
wasn’t sure what to say when she heard Mary say, “But that’s okay, in the half-year you blocked , I
reflected on myself. I wasn’t considerate enough. Only a person starved of love could be deceived by
that scum Howard.”
Mary then looked at the phone. “In the future, I’ll love you even more!”
Keira suddenly laughed, feeling that the friendship between her sister and Mary wasn’t so easily
fractured. She really didn’t need to explain anything.
Keira wanted to speak but suddenly heard through Mary’s video call the sound of a door being kicked
open with a “bang”…
Imdiately after, Mary’s parents rushed in.
Mary was also stunned, and before she could end the
video call, she turned her head just as a slap landed heavily on her face!
“Slap!”
This was from her mother.
Mary covered her face, disbelief in her eyes as she
–
looked at them. “Mom, what are you doing?”
Her mother’s face was livid, and upon hearing this, she imdiately retorted, “What am I doing? Why
don’t you tell us what you’ve done?!”
After that, she threw a pregnancy test report in Mary’s
face!
Upon seeing the report, Mary’s pupils constricted slightly, and she looked toward her mother, trying to
explain, “I, I…”
“Who’s the father of this bastard child?!”
The angry voice ca from her father.
He took a step forward and glared at Mary intensel “Haven’t we taught you to respect and value yourse
You cannot do such things! You got pregnant and ssed around outside! How are you supposed to
get
married now?!”
Mary’s mother began to cry. “That’s right. Are you not going on a blind date with Mr. Horton because of
this man?! Are you
confused?!”
Mary looked at them and suddenly clenched her fists. “Dad, Mom, it’s foolish to date and get pregnant,
but
it’s not foolish to marry Lewis, an old widower?!”
Keira, who was beginning to worry for Mary, was dumbfounded.
She silently turned back and glanced at Lewis, who
was quietly watching her and Amy. The “old widower’s” lips twitched.
That was indeed an unrited disaster.
Keira coughed and continued to watch the video.
Mary had always had a strong presence at ho, and her parents lived under her protection, so Keira
didn’t think much of it at the ti.
But unexpectedly, after Mary said those words, Mar father took a step forward and slapped her again.
“Ungrateful creature! Is Mr. Horton the sa as ordinary people? If you are so capable, why don’t you
sleep with Mr. Horton or Mr. Ellis and have them take responsibility for you?!”
Mary was stunned.
Her father continued to point at her and shouted, “Who will marry you now, looking like this?! If we can’t
marry into a wealthy family, how will your mother and
BAX
I stay in this house in the future?! Even your grandmother will be driven out! She won’t be able to be
buried with your grandfather! Mary, do you even understand?!”
Upon hearing this, Mary suddenly laughed. “So, what am I in your eyes? A commodity to trade for glory
and wealth?!”
Mary’s mother’s expression froze. “How can you speak of like that?”
Mary’s father’s face darkened. “No matter what you say, this child must be aborted! And you mustn’t tell
anyone about this, understand?”
Mary’s mother then took out an abortion pill from pocket. “We’ve already bought the dicine for you
Take it now, Mary. Just do as you’re told. Once you take this dicine, in less than two hours, this
creature will be gone. Then you’ll still be our pure and pristine girl…”
Mary’s eyes widened.
She couldn’t believe what she was seeing, just feeling chills run down her spine.
She had never thought that her own parents would
treat her like this one day…
Mary looked at them in shock, her hands
subconsciously resting on her belly. “Mom, I won’t take it… I want this child!”
Her mother frowned upon hearing this. “Why can’t you just obey?”
Her father also stepped forward. The man who was always frightened by bodyguards and Mary’s uncle
suddenly grasped Mary’s arm tightly. “Mary, don’t bla us. We have no choice. You must take this
dicine… You have to marry into a wealthy family…”
Mary, in terror, tried to break free from his grip, but how could a girl’s strength compare to a man’s?
Mary’s father held her fast, even prying her mouth open, not giving her a chance to speak again, while
Mary’s mother opened the dicine and forced it into her mouth…
Upon witnessing this, Keira panicked and scread, “Uncle, Auntie! You can’t kill this baby!”
Mary struggled, tears streaming down, but she
couldn’t break free from her father’s restraint and her
mother’s suppression…
Mary’s mother, hearing the voice from the phone, said sternly, “Keera, I know you and Mary are good
friends, but you don’t understand. It’s a mistake one makes in youth out of impulsiveness, and you’ll
regret it later! This bastard child cannot stay!”
Keira saw the pill about to enter Mary’s mouth, wishing she could travel through the video call to get
there, but it was already too late…
She could only yell, “This child is Ellis’s!!”
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