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Chapter 826 "Alright, we are doing everything we can to guarantee the safety of mother and child, but we will need you to sign an agreement with us beforehand.” "What agreement?"
“Its a prenatal agreement. One of our nurses will bring it to you. Just read through it and sign it."
With that, the doctor hurried back into the delivery room.
Aunt Tonya clasped her hands in front of her and walked back and forth anxiously,
What did she know about the protocols?
All she knew was that Sylvia's life was at stake and that the child inside her was very important to her.
After pacing about for a while, she suddenly noticed something amiss. She looked at Ben and Jacob who were both standing next to her and asked, "Where's
Odell? Where has he gone? Why didn't he come?"
Ben and Jacob exchanged an awkward glance and muttered with embarrassment, "Aunt Tonya, Master Carter is at Miss Lily's. He doesn't know that Sylvia has
gone into labor.”
Aunt Tonya's expression immediately changed as she said, "Miss Lily, who is Miss Lily? Look at the state Sylvia is in. Shouldn't you have called him and told him
to come over here?" Ben and Jacob pursed their lips and remained silent Isabel pouted and said, "Aunt Lily is Baddie’s fiancee. He must have gone on a date with her."
"What!" Aunt Tonya roared furiously, “Sylvia almost lost her life several times as she did everything she could to ensure the safety of this child of his, then he turns around and gets engaged to someone else? How could he do this to Sylvia? What sort of monster is he?”
Ben and Jacob’s eyes widened. Liam and Isabel were thrown off guard by this as well. Jacob immediately asked for further confirmation, "Aunt Tonya, so the child inside Sylvia is Master Carter’s?" "Who else’s child could it be if it wasn't his?" ll call Master Cater right now! ” Jacob knew that time was of the essence and he immediately reached for his phone. Atthe Springsteen's. The whole family were seated together at a long table beneath a glittering, dazzling chandelier. At the head of the table was Master Springsteen, with Madam Springsteen on his right, and Odell on his direct left.
Except for Lily who was seated right next to Odell, the rest of the seating had been arranged according to the order of seniority, with the youngest seated farthest from Master Springsteen.
It was a very cozy atmosphere. Several members of the family were discussing a certain major project.
Halfway through the conversation, they turned to Odell and Lily and asked, “Master Carter, Lily, what do you two think about this project?"
Lily glanced at Odell, who was taking his time eating and was clearly uninterested in their topic. With a smile on her face, she commented, "I have a lot of thoughts about the project..."
She continued to elaborate on the topic for a while. Her listeners seemed impressed and nodded with satisfaction.
Immediately after, the second aunt of the family asked Lily’s mother, “Sister-in-law, Odell and Lily seem to be getting along so well. When will their official wedding ceremony be?”
As soon as she brought this up, everybody at the table immediately turned their attention to Lily and Odell.
Before her mother could say anything, Lily herself quickly said, “Oh, Aunt, my main focus now is to make sure that | do everything that Grandpa has entrusted to me faithfully first. We're not in a rush to get married.”
“Oh no, that won't do. Your mother is eagerly waiting to hold her very own grandchild. Even your grandmother is waiting to hold her great-grandchild too."
"Yeah Lily, is it possible that you and Master Carter have already made arrangements for the wedding, but are not telling us?"
Lily hurriedly explained, "No, we're not keeping anything from you.”
"Then, haven't you two thought about when you're going to get married yet?"
Lily's face changed and she turned to Odell to plead for his help
Odell put down his cutlery and stated, "We're not planning on getting married for the time be—"
Ding!
Asudden ring from his phone interrupted him
"Sorry, | need to take this.” With that, he took his phone and walked to the living room door where he pressed the phone to his ear. "What's this about?” He asked
Aunt Tonya was practically screaming hysterically into the phone, "Odell, you ungrateful b*stardl You'd better get to the hospital right this moment. If you don't,
don't ever even think about seeing Sylvia ever again!” Odell frowned and asked icily, "What happened to her?” “We're not sure what's going to happen to the baby inside her. I'll never forgive you if you don't come to see her right now!”
Was something happening to the baby?
Chapter 827 His brows were knit together into an intense frown and his eyes were as cold as ice He remembered exactly what the woman had told him last night, word for word
Not only had she told him that the baby inside her did not belong to him, she had even insisted that she felt nothing for him and was completely unconcerned
about him even though he had gotten into a car accident. Why should he go and see her at the hospital?
She deserved to lose her baby!
Nobody had forced her to go to Galston with that man. Whose fault was it that she had become depressed over getting dumped? His expression became colder and colder as he hissed into the phone, “Let me know when she has lost the baby.”
With that bitter statement, he ended the call
Inside the hospital
Aunt Tonya was completely baffled as she stared at the phone
After recoiling from her shock, she went on a rant, “Odell, you ungrateful, disgusting, despicable b*stardl If something happens to Sylvia, | will make sure you
never hear the end of it!” After her outburst, she covered her face and bawled her eyes out.
Liam and Isabel who were next to her were baffled by this sight.
Liam immediately asked, “Aunt Tonya, what did Dad say? Isn't he coming?"
Aunt Tonya cried out, "He hung up on me! He also told me to let him know when your mom loses the baby! ” Liam frowned
At the Springsteens
After the call with Aunt Tonya, Odell returned to the dining table.
For some inexplicable reason, he felt an intense wave of irritation boiling inside him and his brows seemed to be locked into a permanent frown.
After eating for a while, he put down the cutlery. This immediately drew the attention of Lily and the rest of the family.
“The rest of you, please take your time eating. | have something urgent to deal with. Please excuse me.” With that, he got up and walked outside.
Master Springsteen put down his cutlery, obviously displeased by this.
Madam Springsteen cast a look at Lily.
Lily tried to diffuse the situation, "Grandpa, Grandma, why don’t you two continue to eat first? I’ll be right back.” She immediately ran out to chase after Odell.
It was dark and cold outside.
Odell strode over to the parking lot.
However, just as he was about to get into the car, Lily suddenly stopped in front of him.
“Odell, what kind of urgent business do you have? Why are you leaving in such a hurry?" She asked in puzzlement although she made sure that a smile remained on her face.
"It's none of your business." He snapped harshly.
Lily continued to smile politely and asked, "Is it related to Miss Sylvia?”
Odell frowned and looked annoyed "Sorry, | know you warned me to not mention her again this afternoon. | shouldn't have brought her up.” Lily took a step back.
Odell suddenly remembered his confrontation with Sylvia along with everything that had happened over the past half year, from the most minor detail to the
major events
Just for the sake of being with Thomas, the d’mned woman had stabbed him. She had not cared about her two children and had vanished for half a year only to come back just because she had gotten dumped. As if coming back pregnant was not bad enough, she even had the audacity to claim that she missed that man
and was depressed because of it! How was he in any way inferior to the man who dumped her?
Even if she did not love him at all, he was still her ex-husband and
the father of their children. Shouldn't that have been enough justification for her to visit him at the hospital, at least just for the sake of their children? He had waited for her in the hospital for two days and had barely even caught a glimpse of her shadow!
This was no longer about whether she loved him or not. She just simply had no intention of seeing him
Snap!
He flicked the lighter and lit a cigarette.
White smoke blew from between his lips
He turned and leaned against the car.
Chapter 828 Bathed within darkness, his figure stood tall and lean Even though his face was covered in darkness, it did not affect his handsome appearance in any way.
Lily was fascinated by it. She only came back to her senses after he had finished the cigarette, then she asked cautiously, “Odell, are you going to look for
Sylvia?” Odell threw the cigarette butt on the ground, ‘I'm not going.”
What kind of fool was he to allow himself to be strung along?
Lily saw this as a chance and suggested, ‘Why don't | go on a walk with you?”
Ding!
As soon as she said this, Odell’s phone rang again
In irritation, he pulled the phone out of his pocket.
The caller ID showed that it was Liam calling
Why was the brat calling him this time?
After hesitating for a few seconds, he reluctantly put the phone to his ear, "What's the matter?”
"Dad, if you don't come to see Mommy again, you're not only going to lose her, but you will lose me and Isabel also.” Liam's childlike voice was full of
resentment Odell's eyes were cold as ice as he demanded, "You're in the hospital too? Who took you there?” "It doesn't matter. Mommy needs you more than anything now.”
Odell clenched his phone tightly and tried to suppress the hostility in his voice, “What she needs is the father of the child in her womb, not me."
On the other side of the phone, Liam’s eyebrows twitched as he asked in a confused voice, "Didn't Aunt Tonya tell you just now? The baby inside Mommy’s tummy is yours.”
Huhl Odell was completely bewildered by this, "What did you say? Whose child is it?”
“Aunt Tonya said that Mommy was pregnant even before she went to Galston. It's been almost nine months since then, which means the baby is yours."
Almost nine months?
The last time he had run into her while he had been dining with Lily, hadn’t it been Sylvia herself who had claimed that it had barely been six months?
Odell stood up straight and desperately asked for further confirmation, “Repeat that again... Whose baby is it?” Liam promptly ended the call.
Odell’s face darkened, he turned around and pulled the car door open before jumping inside.
The black car swerved out of the parking lot in an instant and zoomed down the road like a bolt of lightning. Lily was left standing there, completely dumbfounded by
everything she had just witnessed.
Inside the delivery room,
Sylvia had no idea how she had come to the hospital. All she knew is that when she opened her eyes, she had seen a crew of doctors and nurses pacing about urgently in front of her.
All she could see was a blur of figures, perhaps due to how weak she was feeling. She could see their mouths moving as they spoke to her but she could not make out a single word of what they were saying.
She felt terrible and her stomach was throbbing so badly that she could not even muster the energy to comfort herself. Huff.
She gasped weakly.
Ithurt. Everything hurt.
She could not muster up the slightest bit of strength either.
Sigh, forget it, so be it. She should never have come back. Perhaps this child shouldn't stay either.
She shut her eyes again.
Her consciousness became like a muddled pool as the countless memories from the past six months repeated in a chaotic order inside her mind The time she had found out Thomas’ true colors
When she had disregarded everything and stabbed that man to
save her child and Aunt Tonya
The painful, grueling half-year she had spent locked up alll alone in that dark castle in Galston.
Itwas karma that things were ending up this way.
She should have never allowed herself to be deceived by Thomas’ superficiality. She should have never trusted him at all
She didn’t blame Odell for hating her so much.
But now, she would be going to the other world with her unborn child. Odell would never have to see her again and be upset by the sight of her. Then he could
happily spend the rest of his days with Lily. She was fading away.
Just as she thought that the sweet embrace of death would take her away for once and for all, she suddenly felt an intense grip on her arms She heard a familiar voice, "...Sylvia, Sylvia, wake up, wake up!”
She felt someone shaking her violently.
Was it him?
No, it could not be, he had even refused to answer her call. How could he be here now?
She continued to drift off to sleep and sink further into the darkness.
There was yet another vigorous shake that nearly threw her off the bed, as she heard a deep roar, "I told you to wake up! Are you deaf? If you don't open your
eyes, | will let you never see Isabel and Liam again! I'll make sure you never see them again even if you die!”
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Suddenly, her eyes snapped open
Her muddled mind suddenly regained a certain clarity and her blurred vision became clear again
She looked at the man in front of her.
There was a layer of antibacterial covering over his tailored suit. He also had a head cover and a mask on that concealed his appearance. The only thing that helped her recognize him was the all-too- familiar look in his eyes
Such dark eyes with such an intense look within them, who else could it be if not Odell?
Still, she had a hard time believing it
He had hung up on her. What had made him suddenly decide to come here?
"Am |... Am | dead?" Was this just a hallucination?
Odell told her, "... You're not dead, you're still alive.”
His gaze was sharp as a knife and his voice was cold and gloomy.
Sylvia shuddered, as clarity began to return to her brain
She asked weakly, "You... Why are you here? Didn't you hang up on me?”
Odell glared at her, "Aunt Tonya and Liam called me and told me to come. They told me that the baby is mine.” Sylvia stared at him wide-eyed. Her mind went blank and for a moment, she did not know how to respond. She tilted her head and closed her eyes to pretend that she was dead.
Odell turned her face toward him with one hand, and hissed menacingly in her ear, “I'll count to three, and if you don't open your eyes again, you will never get to see Liam and Isabel again.”
Sylvia's eyelids twitched, but before Odell could go on, she opened her eyes and said breathlessly, "I didn't mean to hide it from you."
“Then it’s intentional.” His voice was somber. Sylvia pursed her lips, not daring to speak. She barely even had the strength left to utter a single word.
The doctor interjected, “Master Carter, she’s in a much better condition now. All she needs now is to recover her strength. We just need to let her eat something quickly."
With that, a nurse appeared with a bowl of soup.
Odell took the bowl in his hands before sitting on the edge of the bed. With one arm, he lifted Sylvia up and allowed her to rest her head on his shoulder as he spoonfed her the soup.
"Open your mouth." His voice was brash and commanding.
Sylvia opened her mouth as she was told and swallowed the soup down bit by bit until she had finished the entire bowl. The nurse then brought them some chocolate.
Odell crushed the chocolate into small pieces and put each piece in
her mouth one by one.
Sylvia ate them all
Gradually, she felt the strength returning to her body.
All her exhaustion seemed to disappear. However, that only made the pain in her belly seem more pronounced now. She frowned.
“What's wrong?" Odell noticed and asked immediately.
“It hurts.”
"Where does it hurt?"
"Stomach... my stomach hurts." Sylvia grumbled.
Odell immediately turned to the doctor, "Why is she in so much pain?”
The doctor said helplessly, “Master Carter, that’s just what comes with having a baby. She’s doing much better now, so it’s time for us to take her to delivery.”
Odell frowned and looked at Sylvia, "Can you handle it?”
Sylvia gnashed her teeth in pain, “I... | should be able to.”
“You have to, no matter what! Or else, you'll get it from mel” He suddenly roared
Syivia shivered with fear, thus intensifying the pain in her lower body.
She could not bear the sharp pain and cried out loud
“Master Carter, we'll be sending her to the delivery room now, so
I'll have to ask you to leave now.” The doctor urged anxiously.
Odell tuned to Sylvia, "Sylvia, listen up now, if you make it through this, Ill excuse everything that happened in the past. But if something goes wrong from
here, then I'll, then you'll seel Do you hear me?” Sylvia took a breath and whispered weakly, “Word for word.” Odell got up and left the room
Immediately after that, two nurses began to push the bed
Seeing that Sylvia was about to enter the delivery room, Odell grabbed the doctor by his collar and pleaded, “If anything goes wrong at all, | want you to ensure
her safety first and foremost! As long as you keep her alive, | swear that | will provide everything the hospital needs if anything comes up in the future!”
The doctor remarked with a confident smile upon hearing this, " Don't worry, sir. Even if you didn't tell us, we would still do everything in our power to ensure
the mother's safety.” With that, Sylvia was pushed into the delivery room
Although she was dealing with the intense pain in her belly, she had heard the entire exchange. She suddenly could not help but smile
Not only that, she also felt a surge of energy swell inside her.
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Aunt Tonya, Isabel, and Liam were huddled together in the corridor, all of them staring intently at the delivery room. When Odell came out, Aunt Tonya immediately rushed towards him and asked,”How is Sylvia doing?” The children anxiously turned to him as well.
He answered,”She’s doing much better, and she’s in the delivery room now.”
Aunt Tonya immediately heaved a sigh of relief,"That’s good, that’s good.”
Isabel and Liam seemed just as comforted by the news.
Odell gently patted Liam and said,”Take your sister with you and have Ben and Jacob take you two somewhere to eat dinner.”
Liam insisted, “I want to wait here for Mommy to come out.”
Isabel chimed,”! want to wait for Mommy too.”
Odell glared at them coldly, “Either you go and get dinner right now, or you go home. The choice is yours.”
Liam
frowned.
Isabel scoffed at him.
With that, they departed hand in hand with Ben and Jacob.
Odell turned to Aunt Tonya,”Aunt Tonya, can you tell me what happened during the six months that you went to Galston?” Chapter
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“Aren't you already engaged to Miss Springsteen ?
What's the point of asking me this now?” Aunt Tonya expressed angrily.
“I'm sorry, | shouldn’t have spoken to you like that on the phone just now.”
This seemed to appease Aunt Tonya, though she was still rather upset,“Like | said, you’re already engaged to someone else. There’s no point in you knowing all this.”
“Our engagement only came to be because of a private agreement.” Aunt Tonya’s expression changed,’What do you mean? Has this been a fake engagement the entire time?”
“Yeah.” After a moment of silence, he asked, “I want to know why Sylvia is suffering from depression.” He also wanted to know why she was carrying his child but had refused to tell him.
Aunt Tonya sighed, “Well, so many things happened in those six months. Neither of us ever imagined that Thomas would turn out to be someone like that. The entire reason she went to Galston in the first place was to save me, Isabel, and Liam.”
Odell immediately probed,”Didn’t she go to Galston to be with Thomas?”
Aunt Tonya immediately clarified,"Of course not! She didn’t even love Thomas to begin with and even if she did, she wouldn't simply abandon the children!”
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“Yeah, it’s always just been Thomas who was pursuing her. She only agreed to date him out of a sense of obligation because she felt like she owed him and she thought that it was the least she could do.” Aunt Tonya told him candidly.
Odell was baffled. How was this possible? She had even stabbed him in order to go away with Thomas. How could it be that she had never had feelings for him at all?
He felt his body tensing up as he pressed further, “How did you know she dated him only because of all these reasons that you stated?”
“I've been by her side the entire time. | watched her grow up and | know everything there is to know about her. How do you think | know?” Aunt Tonya had not expected Odell to be completely oblivious of everything that had happened. It would seem that Sylvia had never told him anything since her return.
Immediately after this, she followed up with,"The morning we left Westchester , she happened to find a phone that Thomas had once used. She read everything that Tara had sent to him and found out about all the despicable things he had done. Unfortunately, Thomas himself found out about this as well and promptly had me, Isabel, and Liam all drugged. He then used us to threaten her. After that, she had no choice but to go with him.”
Odell felt as if he had been knocked off his feet.
He remembered how when Thomas’ men had brought the children to him, they had seemed completely out of it and they had slept an absurdly long time before finally waking up.
At the time, he was still fuming over Sylvia stabbing him, so all
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“Yeah, it’s always just been Thomas who was pursuing her. She only agreed to date him out of a sense of obligation because she felt like she owed him and she thought that it was the least she could do.” Aunt Tonya told him candidly.
Odell was baffled. How was this possible? She had even stabbed him in order to go away with Thomas. How could it be that she had never had feelings for him at all?
He felt his body tensing up as he pressed further, “How did you know she dated him only because of all these reasons that you stated?”
“I've been by her side the entire time. | watched her grow up and | know everything there is to know about her. How do you think | know?” Aunt Tonya had not expected Odell to be completely oblivious of everything that had happened. It would seem that Sylvia had never told him anything since her return. Immediately after this, she followed up with,”The
morning we left Westchester , she happened to find a phone that Thomas had once used. She read everything that Tara had sent to him and found out about all the despicable things he had done. Unfortunately, Thomas himself found out about this as well and promptly had me, Isabel, and Liam all drugged. He then used us to threaten her. After that, she had no choice but to go with him.”
Odell felt as if he had been knocked off his feet.
He remembered how when Thomas’ men had brought the children to him, they had seemed completely out of it and they had slept an absurdly long time before finally waking up.
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these details had simply gone over his head.