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Chapter 68 - Ring Tone

Author: Phoebe Heather
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56
Moriah looked at him, tears kept flowing from her eyes. “Why don’t you want to have a child?”

“I’m not ready to have a child,” Ethan said and sat on the couch near the French window.

“Why?” Moriah wanted to know his reason.

“Let’s not talk about it, Moriah,” Ethan said in a curt tone.

Moriah concluded that his unwillingness to discuss his reason was that he just didn’t want to have a child with her. He is a man and can’t help but touch her whenever he feels a need, he just sees her as fulfilling his carnal needs but has no plan to have a child with her. Moriah held her chest, as a past bearable pain swept into her heart.

Within a minute, she stopped crying, and with her palm, she dried her tear streaked face. She entered the bathroom and washed her face, brushed her hair and left the room afterwards, leaving Ethan in the room.

After a while, Moriah’s phone rang. Ethan fished out her phone and looked at the screen to check who the caller was.

His stoic face turned grim when he sa
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