Gregory sincerely thought Ned was just a scumbag who had abandoned his wife. At first, he refused to read the messages Ned sent him. However, he couldn't help himself.Ned's message was simply to ask him to take care of Angeline. He inquired about Angeline's current condition and if she had aborted the child."What's wrong with him?" Instead of replying to the message, Gregory locked his phone and tucked it into his pocket.Gregory harbored a deep sense of dissatisfaction towards his cousin's character, whom he hadn't encountered in the past 20 years.He felt disbelief at the thought of Ned forcing his wife he had just divorced to abort the child.…Angeline received a call from Sean in the afternoon. "Are you returning home for lunch, or should the housekeeper bring it to the laboratory?" Although posed as a question, Sean's voice did not leave room for any objections.Angeline could hear the sound of documents being flipped through from Sean's side. She didn't expect h
However, she wondered if she should keep this child. A child related to Sean who would most probably bring trouble to the Lawson family, Robert, and even her biological mother.Perhaps because she had lost her loved ones recently, Angeline had developed a different feeling toward the baby in her womb. Deep down, she wanted to keep the child.She wouldn't have hesitated to keep the baby if it wasn't Sean's child. But now, she was concerned about many things."If Mr. Lawson Senior finds out, he'll never allow this child to be born. You should know that."She lowered her eyes, avoiding Sean's gaze. She feared seeing the intense and fierce emotions in the eyes of the man who had always been composed. She wouldn't be able to handle it."Angie, I wasn't asking for his opinion," he said before adjusting his posture and pinching her chin with his icy fingers, forcing her to look up at him. "I'm asking… you."As their eyes met, Angeline's heartbeat began to speed up. Without the barrier o
His Adam's apple bobbed. He was struggling to hold back the emotions he had been suppressing.Ever since he slept with Angeline, Sean had always found himself losing control when he was around her. The addictive feeling was almost beyond his control.While his gaze remained fixed on her, he gently pressed the corner of her lips with his finger and asked, "Can I kiss you?"Startled, she parted her lips slightly but no words came out. Her heart almost stopped at his request. She felt her whole body tingling under his profound gaze.She wondered how he could be so straightforward and unabashed about wanting to kiss her.Any intimate gesture with Sean would make her feel a strong sense of guilty pleasure, let alone kissing him, especially after that time when she was forcibly kissed by him in this apartment.The details of their lips and tongues intertwining, the intimate sound they made when kissing that would make one's ears burn, and the man's heavy breaths were all vividly replay
Since Angeline was in a bad mood, she couldn't help sounding bitterly sarcastic."I know!" uttered Gregory before quickly taking out his phone to show her his conversation with Ned. "I scolded him too! Don't worry. When he asked if you had aborted the child, I told him you did. He won't know whether you decided to keep the baby or not."She glanced through the chat interface and ultimately accepted the milk Gregory had brought as a gesture of kindness."Thank you," she said.Seeing that she no longer resisted him, Gregory breathed a sigh of relief.On the other end of the phone, Ned was lost in thought as he looked at the chat records with Gregory. He said that Angeline had already aborted the child.He wondered how everything happened so fast and thought it must have been Sean's doing.With Sean's current status, he wouldn't allow Angeline to be involved in a scandal. Due to Lawson Global being an independent producer of microchips and lithography machines, his influence in t
Without waiting for Ned to answer, Ingrid reached out and shook his arm, asking, "Ned, what are you thinking about?"He snapped back to reality. He didn't know how to broach the subject with Ingrid to tell her that "Baby" was actually what Angeline called him in private because he knew that Ingrid always felt insecure around him."Weren't you always complaining about me calling you 'Baby' and treating you like a child?"He smiled and reached out to tousle her hair."Don't you know women always say one thing but mean another?" she said, swatting his hand from her hair. "Only when you call me that, I feel… special to you! Besides, you've been calling me that for so long, yet you suddenly stopped. There must be a reason for it!"Ingrid's eyes were smiling, but her hands had tightened into fists. She feared Ned would tell her it was because he had remembered Angeline and perhaps "Baby" was what he used to call Angeline in private, so he didn't want to use it on her.She was also afra
"There's no problem then," said James while smiling at Angeline. He continued, "Back then, my wife was deprived of opportunities because of pregnancy, so I won't let the same thing happen to you. As long as you feel physically fine, I believe in your abilities. "After all, there are no dangerous experiments at the conference, but… if you find it too challenging halfway through, I don't mind sending you back.""Okay!" she exclaimed, grateful to James. "I won't let you down!""However, let me advise you this as an experienced person, being a single mother isn't easy. Since you're divorced, are you sure you still want to keep this child?" he asked, expressing his concern.Despite knowing that the professor might have also assumed that it was Ned's child, Angeline didn't bother to explain further.She simply said, "My foster mother and sister are both gone, and their deaths were more or less because of me. This time… I don't want to kill any more of my loved ones."James pursed hi
"You're wrong about that. If it weren't for Professor Dickson arguing with those people and building relationships, where would the funding for our laboratory come from?"Reese smiled and ruffled Marion's head, then said to Gregory, "We have a socialite here. Angeline, just go have fun at this conference and leave everything to Gregory!""Don't worry, I'll take good care of Angie!" Gregory assured.At 7:30 pm, it started drizzling in Cloudsville. Wrapped in a woolen coat, Angeline stood on the steps in front of the laboratory building, looking up at the rain.She was about to jog back to the dormitory to get an umbrella when a black sedan stopped in front of the building.Sean, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, got out of the car with an umbrella and walked up the stairs."Let's go," he said.Even standing a step below her with the umbrella in his hand, Sean, with his height of about six feet two inches, was still taller than her.She adjusted the bag on her shoulder and l
"I just… don't want the child to be associated with the Lawsons," Angeline said, tightly grasping the hem of her clothes.When she finally gathered herself, she lifted her head and added, "This child had come unexpectedly. If it hadn't, I might have chosen to live by myself till the end of my life. But now that it's here… It's my only family in this world now!"It's my fault that the child's an illegitimate child, and I'll do my best to make it up in the future! But I can't betray the Lawsons either, because I won't be able to compensate for… what I owe them."Sean met her gaze and took off his glasses before saying, "We can register our marriage in Ravoria. If you don't want to continue our marital relationship after the child is born, we can divorce by then."If the Lawsons find out, I can say that I help you because of them! Angie, I can compromise on anything, but I'll never allow my child to be illegitimate. I hope you can understand and respect that."The child belonged to A