Chapter 296

His gaze was dark.

If he could be honest, he actually didn't like the idea of Stephen asking him to close his eyes like this time. The darkness only reminded him of the incident twelve years ago, stirring up fear within him.

"You think I've been happy living like this all along? You think having Veronica is my wish?"

Veronica shook her head, trying to shake off the memories of her past that were playing automatically in her mind.

"I only ask you to love him. Why are you so obsessed with having a son?! For me, as long as you can give birth to a healthy child, that's more than enough!"

"That alone is more than enough!? Are you nuts or what?! Do you know what my extended family talks about every time we visit there? Do you know what my father always says every time he visits there?!" his mother shouted angrily with a terrible hand gesture. "He saw me as useless for not being able to give him the grandson he wanted!"

"Why do we have to do what your father said!? Your father is just a cons