The first time Jessica heard Tammy voice her theory about the possibility of Noah bringing his boyfriend to live with him at his apartment, she felt both sad and annoyed. At that time, she didn't even respond to what her assistant said to her, and that was because her heart was too hurt. However, today when she voiced the same theory in front of her husband and his boyfriend, she felt nothing in her heart, and it seemed like it was true that her heart had gone numb after continuously feeling hurt because of her husband. She could even come to her husband's apartment tonight. Of course, her intention was not to stay in that place permanently, and she would only take her belongings before she could leave that place completely. It was a shame for her because she had been living at Noah's apartment since they got married. Before they got married, she rented an apartment, but then she left that place and lived with her husband instead. Today, she quite regretted her decision to leave he
Visiting time at the hospital had passed several hours ago, but Jessica and Noah were allowed into the room where Jessica's father had been staying for almost two weeks.Yes, Jessica was forced to bring Noah with her when visiting her father because her father asked them to come together tonight. It was indeed her father who called her when she was at Noah's apartment, and instead of giving her bad news, the old man asked her to come to the hospital tonight with her husband.Of course, Jessica didn't know what the old man would say to her, but she came anyway. She also had no choice but to let her husband stand next to her beside the hospital bed where her father lay weak.“You rarely come to visit me, you ungrateful brat!” The old man lying in the hospital bed greeted his daughter with a scolding instead of welcoming her warmly.“Relax, Dad,” Jessica answered the old man. “You may leave this place tomorrow, but if you continue to raise your tone when talking to me, your next destinat
Jessica was the only child in her family. Patricia's condition was said to not allow her to have a second child after giving birth to Jessica thirty-three years ago, and that was why she and her husband could only raise one child even though they actually wanted to have another child. That was also the reason why they had been spoiling Jessica so much since she was a baby. They never let their daughter suffer, and they always tried to grant their daughter's wishes if it was within their reach. They also let their daughter do the things she wanted to do, including becoming a photographer instead of choosing a more stable job in the city. Even when they had the idea of introducing a man to their daughter, they did not force her daughter to accept the man immediately. Instead, they allowed their daughter to reject the man if she wanted to. Something similar happened almost four years ago when they first introduced Noah to their daughter. At that time, they asked their daughter's opini
It seemed like a serious warning from Luke, but Jessica suddenly frowned before saying, “You make it sound like you have a lot to give us, Dad. You sound like a dying rich man who has a lot of property that you can give to your daughter and son-in-law, but I know that our family is not that rich. It can even be said that we are poor, so please stop being dramatic, Dad.”“…” This time, it was Luke who looked stunned after hearing Jessica's words.It seemed that the old man was speechless by what his daughter had just said, but his daughter did not look guilty. After all, Jessica knew very well about her family situation. They were just an ordinary family, not too rich and not too poor. Their house was not too big and not too small, and they only owned two cars, one of which was bought with installments that had not yet been paid off. They didn't live luxuriously, even Jessica's mother didn't wear too much jewelry.That was the reason why Jessica facepalmed when she realized that her fa
“Why would you say something like that to my father?” Crossing her arms over her chest to show her dominance, Jessica questioned the man standing in front of her. They were no longer in the room her father used, but they were still in the hospital instead of leaving immediately. The hospital alley was quiet as the night was getting older, and her voice managed to break the silence. "I did that because I care about your father," Noah answered calmly, not feeling intimidated by the woman's piercing gaze. “His wish is simple, so I want to grant it. You're his daughter, so you should grant his simple wish, right?” His words seemed to trigger Jessica's anger, she even pulled her hands from in front of her chest while glaring sharply at the brown-haired man. “You think his wish is simple? My father wants to have a grandchild when we are about to get divorced, but you think his wish is simple? Do you think with your knees, not with your brain?” She angrily questioned the man. "We won't b
“Where did you go last night, sis? Why didn't you call me, and why were you so drunk when I found you last night?” It was still early in the morning, and Jessica was dizzy listening to the series of questions her assistant asked. For a moment, she didn't answer the questions and only used her palms to support her spinning head. Tammy sat across from her, and she took a deep breath before pushing the glass bottle closer to the older woman's hand. “Drink that first, sis. I will take you later when you go to your new place,” she said. Jessica finally lifted her head from her palm, and her eyes focused on the small bottle that the younger woman pushed over. She knew it was a hangover cure, and she silently looked at it before opening the cap. Without thinking twice, she put the contents into her mouth. Tammy watched what the older woman was doing, and she silently shook her head before moving her hand toward the toast on the plate in front of her. It was time for breakfast, and she ha
Regarding Tammy's crazy idea to steal Noah from his boyfriend using an innocent baby, Jessica immediately reacted by reaching out her hand to take the toast on her own plate before shoving it into the younger woman's mouth, automatically stopping the woman from talking nonsense.“What if I ask you to be a surrogate mother so that I can fulfill my father's wishes? Surely, you are curious about Noah's size, right? By doing that, you will be able to see his big penis, and you will also be able to have fun with him as you always dreamed of! What do you think about that idea?” Jessica sarcastically asked the question.Tammy almost choked on the object suddenly shoved into her mouth, but she quickly got it out before screaming, “THAT'S CRAZY!”It seemed like the younger woman was offended, but Jessica didn't care and she quickly got up from her position and said, “You think that's crazy, but your idea just now is just as crazy, Miss Burner. Next time, put your brain to work more than your m
At first, Jessica was very sure that the idea of having children with Noah was crazy. Whatever the reason, she didn't want to bear his child, and that was her belief until she had a serious talk with her mother yesterday. When she arrived at her parents' house yesterday, the doctor had already left the house after checking her father's condition, so Jessica only got an explanation from her mother. However, she did not doubt her mother at all, and she knew that her mother was telling the truth about her father's condition when she finally saw her father with her eyes that day. After her mother explained her father's condition to her, Jessica then went to the master bedroom to meet her father, and she could see how her father was sleeping at that time. Her mother told her that her father was getting injections from the doctor so he could get enough rest, and Jessica could see how pale and frail the old man was. At that time, Jessica was not sure whether her father would survive until
“Mom, are we really going to stay overnight at Grandma's house today?” Glancing in the rearview mirror to look into the back seat, Jessica could see how her son kept swinging his legs while asking the question. His cute movements only showed that the blonde boy was very excited to hear his mother's answer. But, this wasn't even the first time Shane had asked that question, and Jessica actually had answered the same question before. Thankfully, Jessica didn't get tired of hearing her son's excitement, and she smiled while shaking her head helplessly before answering, "We're going to have a sleepover at Grandma's house for real, but why are you so excited about that, Shane?" Jessica could keep glancing at the boy because she didn't need to focus on driving. But, the answer to her question came not from her son but from her daughter, "That's because Grandma promised us that she would tell us more stories about Grandpa, Mommy! We wonder if Grandpa is more like me or Shane!" "Of cou
“What is 'proposing,' Mommy? Why do you keep saying that word?” Impatiently, Shane continued to pull the side of Jessica's shirt while asking the question. It was indeed the little boy who responded to Jessica even though the question was directed at Noah. But, that didn't upset the woman, and instead, she looked satisfied as she smiled at the boy before answering, “You'll have to ask your favorite Daddy about that word, Shane. He would know more than me about that word.” Jessica did direct her answer to her son, but her eyes glanced at Noah when she said her last sentence. Noah looked cornered, he even tried to look away from the mother and son pair. The artificial light around the area reflected on the man's forehead after he took off the cat head, and it looked glistening with sweat, either because of his cat costume or because of his nervousness. Jessica didn't know the reason, but that didn't stop her from staring intently at the man while waiting for his answer. "Proposin
“So, where is your Daddy now? Did he run away after giving my son a stup—a funny task?” Gritting her teeth to suppress her annoyance, Jessica questioned her son, almost failing to restrain herself from uttering the word "stupid." However, it was not her son who responded. Instead, it was her daughter who suddenly tugged on her sleeve, causing her to turn towards the little girl. “Daddy didn't run away, Mom,” the little girl said, and Jessica thought she would continue to say something. That's why Jessica remained silent waiting for her daughter to explain what she had just said, but the little girl didn't say anything and just moved her little hands towards the pink backpack hanging on her back. Jessica didn't know what the girl was doing, but she could see how the girl unzipped her backpack before taking something out of it. To Jessica's surprise, the thing the girl had just taken out of her backpack was a camera. To be pr
In the end, Jessica decided to give Noah a second chance. Yes, a second chance to be closer to her children.The reason behind her decision was that her children really liked Noah since the first time they met at the mall ice cream shop when she accompanied Tammy to buy a birthday present for her husband. It could be said that the ice cream succeeded in buying the kids' love, and they really liked spending time with the person who bought them the ice cream.Actually, that was not a bad thing, but Jessica was quite annoyed by the stubbornness of her children who kept calling Noah "daddy." It was clearly Noah's fault for casually confirming that he was indeed the twins' father, and Jessica continued to curse the man in her heart from that day on.She didn't even realize that a week had passed since her mother left the hospital and started living again in Noah's old apartment. Due to her mother's pleading, she ended up staying in that apartment as well rather
“That… that's too cheesy! Aren't we going to buy food for my mother and children? We better leave now or they will eat us alive if they get too hungry," Jessica tried to change the topic of their conversation when she started to feel nervous because of what Noah had just said to her. She even averted her gaze to look at anything as long as it wasn't Noah's face, and that was why she didn't notice the hopeful expression on the man's face. "You just said that what I said was too cheesy, but you didn't say that you didn't believe what I said," Noah replied, ignoring the fact that Jessica was trying to change the topic of their conversation. Finally, Jessica could no longer avoid the man's face, and she once again looked at him with her pair of blue eyes. At this moment, she could finally see a glimmer of hope in the man's eyes. "To be honest, Tammy has told me everything related to you," Jessica finally said the truth.
“Why didn't you remarry after we divorced five years ago?” Jessica's voice was finally heard in the car. "Is it because you still can't get over Tyler?"Suddenly, Noah sneered before replying, “Do you think I love that man so much that I can't replace him with someone else? I don't know if this information is useful for you or not, but the truth is that I didn't really love him when we were together.""You didn't really love him but you still wanted to be with him even though it meant betraying our marriage," Jessica answered sarcastically, and Noah looked stunned by her answer.For a moment, Noah could only stare at the blonde without being able to utter a word with his mouth, but then he took a deep breath before saying, “I believe love and guilt are two different things, and I differentiated them clearly when I was still with him. I betrayed our marriage because of my feelings of guilt, not because of my love for him.”Jessica was the one who d
Jessica didn't know what to say after hearing Noah just say what was on his mind and heart, but for some reason, she felt familiar with the situation. The familiar feeling she felt in her heart made her anxious, her hands even moved to grip her jeans tightly as if asking for support from the blue fabric.“You probably think that my situation is similar to your children's situation, right?”Jessica felt her heart stop beating for a moment after hearing what Noah had just asked. It was actually impossible for her heart to stop beating while she was still alive, but she was truly surprised by the question. She finally understood why she felt anxious about Noah's story. That was because the story reminded her of her children.“I am the illegitimate child of that billionaire, and your children are the same even if their father is not a billionaire. They are very young now, but their lives are probably as full of drama as mine. Their lives will be full of lies a
After everything that happened to her five years ago, Jessica really didn't like surprises. Back then, many unexpected things happened to her, and none of them were pleasant surprises. That was why she felt traumatized by unexpected things, but today, she kept getting unexpected things since she came to the hospital to see her mother.First, a surprise came in the form of Noah, and second, it was in the form of the fact that her mother ended up living in Noah's old apartment. As if that wasn't enough, Noah then told her that he wanted to discuss a matter with her alone, and in the end, Jessica could only follow the man's lead.They were once again in Noah's car, and Jessica had fastened her seat belt. She prepared to look for something for her mother and her children's lunch, but she was puzzled because Noah did not start the car immediately.“Did you forget your wallet?” Confused, Jessica asked the man while looking at him.Her thinking was indee
In fact, Jessica had no plans at all to get into her ex-husband's car. Even her ex-husband's appearance at the hospital was not her plan at all, but in the end, she could only surrender and agree to get into the vehicle.Her mother first sat in the second row of seats with the twins, and she had no choice but to take the passenger seat next to the driver's seat. On the way to her mother's house, Noah, her mother, and the twins continued to chat happily about everything, but Jessica remained silent. None of those people seemed to notice her, and that was why she was lost in thought during the journey.She was actually drowned by the fact that she was passing through a route that she used to travel in the past. She didn't know her mother's new address, but she was sure that every street the car took was familiar to her eyes. It brought a feeling of nostalgia that both warmed and chilled her heart.At first, she ignored the familiarity she felt, assuming that