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Chapter 836
Isabel puffed up her cheeks and pondered. She seemed to take the task very seriously. “Flint.”
It was Liam who said this.
Odell, Sylvia, and Isabel turned to him
collectively.
Sylvia asked him with a smile,“Liam, why do you want to name your brother Flint?”
Liam looked at his baby brother who was sleeping soundly and remarked, “His eyes are dark like coal. | thought Flint would be a nice name.”
Sylvia smiled and gave her blessings. “Okay, let’s call him Flint.” Sylvia’s body was still rather weak. She had breakfast, went to the bathroom, then chatted with everyone for a while before falling asleep with Flint next to her.
Seeing that her mother and her new brother were sleeping together, Isabel wanted to crawl into the bed and sleep with them, but Odell stopped her.
He took her into his arms and patted Liam's small shoulder with the other. “Come on out. Your brother and mother need some rest.”
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Liam glanced at the two sleeping figures on the bed and reluctantly followed Odell out to the next room. They rested in the adjacent room last night.
Odell put Isabel who was already drifting off to sleep on the bed, then he shot a look at Liam before heading out. “Where are you going?”
Odell paused and turned back to see Liam looking at him with a sort of grim look.
He flicked an eyebrow and told him, “To be with your mother.”
Liam suddenly asked in a challenging way,”So you're not going to see Aunt Lily?”
“No.”
Something shifted in Liam’s eyes when he suddenly asked,“Did you and Mommy make up?”
Odell smiled in a rather queer way and stated, “Yeah.”
Liam seemed encouraged to hear this, but he asked again when a thought occurred to him, “It’s not going to be the same thing again where you two get into a fight again later on?”
“No, we won't be separated again.”
Even if this woman stabbed him ten times, he still would not let her go.
Liam grinned happily upon hearing this.
Odell returned the same smile and left behind instructions,”
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Take care of your sister.”
“Okay,” Liam answered dutifully.
Odell then turned around and went out.
Soon, he was back in Sylvia’s room next door.
Aunt Tonya was still sitting beside the bed. He promptly informed her, “Get some rest in the next room. I'll watch over them.” Aunt Tonya suggested cautiously,”You barely slept last night. You should get some sleep while | watch over them.” “I'm not sleepy,” he said as he plopped himself down on a chair.
Aunt Tonya had no choice but to leave.
The room became quiet.
After sitting for a while, he leaned closer to Sylvia and planted a kiss on her forehead.
Sylvia was awakened by the cry of the baby.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Odell standing in front of the bed holding Flint in his arms. It seemed like he was trying to get him to stop crying but had no clue how to achieve that.
He wore a tight frown and whispered,
“Don't cry.”
Flint suddenly zipped his mouth, but only moments after that immediately broke out into a tremendous cry again. Odell was speechless.
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Sylvia was afraid that Odell would hit the child, so she hurriedly said to him,”He’s hungry. Quick, give him to me.” Noticing that Sylvia was awake, Odell put the baby in front of her.
Sylvia immediately unbuttoned her clothes but stopped abruptly when she was halfway through. She turned to Odell who was. still standing idly beside the bed and mentioned, “I’m going to breastfeed Flint. Can you go outside for a while?”
Odell frowned and seemed displeased by this.
Sylvia had to compromise. “Well, just turn around.”
He darted a glance at her chest and proceeded to turn around.
With that, Sylvia continued unbuttoning her shirt.
The boy instantly fell silent.
After he was full, he fell asleep again.
Sylvia gently set the boy down beside her. “Is he full?” Odell asked, his voice heavy with bass.
Sylvia turned in the direction of his voice and noticed that he had turned around at some point without her noticing.
Her face flushed red and she reprimanded him angrily, “Who told you to turn around?” Odell narrowed his eyes harshly.
Chapter 837 Sylvia sheathed the sharp look in her eyes and softened her tone, “When did you turn around?” “Just now.”
As soon Odell answered, he drew closer to the bed and leaned in toward Sylvia. He took her chin in his hand and said with a coy smile, “Repeat what you just said.”
Sylvia repeated, slightly puzzled, “When did you turn around ?”
“No, the previous sentence.”
Sylvia’s confusion was ever-growing.
She looked at him evasively.
His handsome face was only inches from her. He had a self satisfied smile and seemed rather amused by the current situation. How was he so amused when Sylvia was upset at him only a moment ago?
Unsure of what was on his mind, Sylvia decided to play it off. “I forgot what | said.”
“Huh?” Odell grunted icily.
Sylvia’s eyes narrowed and she carefully whispered, “I said, who told you to turn around?”.
“You said it in a different tone just now,” he said with a stern look on his face.
Sylvia added a tint of aggression to her voice,”Who told you to turn around?”
“More assertive.”
Sylvia tried her best. “...Who told you to turn around?!”
“Which part don’t you understand?” He grabbed her chin and commanded fiercely,“More assertive!”
Sylvia felt greatly troubled by what he was making her do, she channeled her frustration and roared, “Who told you to turn around?!”
Immediately after that, Odell cracked a queer smile. He seemed rather satisfied with Sylvia’s display.
He gently caressed her cheek. “Just like that. From here on, you don’t have to suppress your emotions anymore. Let it all out if you're angry.”
Sylvia frowned. “What's wrong with you?”
As soon as she said that, a black look surfaced on Odell’s face.
Sylvia pursed her lips.
Asilence fell upon them.
Sylvia muttered meekly, “You told me to not suppress my emotions, didn’t you?”
“| said that you shouldn’t suppress your emotions. | didn’t tell you to get angry at me.” He immediately tapped Sylvia on her head upon saying this.
He did it playfully so it did not hurt in the slightest.
Sylvia pursed her lips and muttered,
“Okay.”
Her stomach began to growl.
Her expression stiffened.
Odell smiled and asked,
“Hungry?”
Sylvia nodded.
“Yeah”.
“Just one second. I'll get them to bring food here.”
“Okay.”
Odell took out his phone and made a call.
Within a few minutes, a nurse walked in with a platter of nutritious food. She set the platter next to the bed before leaving. Odell sat down on the edge of the bed and moved the dishes onto a retractable table in front of Sylvia.
She looked at his slender hands that were operating swiftly, setting the meal for her. Something occurred to her and she asked, “Have you eaten yet?”
“Just had dinner with Aunt Tonya and thekids.”
“Okay.”
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Sylvia picked up the cutlery and began eating.
After she had her fill, she lay back on the bed.
Odell put the cutlery and plates back onto the cart that the nurse had brought in, and then made a phone call. After a while, the nurse came over and pushed the cart out. The ward fell silent again.
Sylvia looked at him, her eyes wide open.
Odell sensed her staring at him and confronted her gaze. She promptly closed her eyes.
He smiled and chuckled to himself.
After a while, her breathing gained a slow and steady rhythm as she had fallen asleep. That was when he rose and moved to a nearby couch.
He had been awake for nearly twenty-four hours and was beginning to feel tired as well. He leaned on the couch, then closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
After an indiscernible amount of time, he heard a knock on the door.
He slowly opened his eyes to steal a peek.
There was a window attached to the door and from the window, he immediately recognized Lily who was standing outside.
Chapter 838 Something dark surfaced in his eyes. He darted a glance at Sylvia who was still sound asleep and then he went outside.
Lily smiled politely when he stepped outside and greeted him courteously,“! heard that Miss Sylvia just gave birth and | figured I'd come to take a look. How is she doing?”
“She's doing fine,” Odell spoke with a shade of hostility.
Lily was very sharp and immediately sensed his vexation. She considered for a moment and asked, “I think she’s only pregnant for half a year. How’s the baby doing?”
“The baby is doing fine.”
“That’s good as she delivered only after half a year of pregnancy. | was wondering if some sort of accident happened that led to such an early delivery.”
“Something along those lines did happen, but this isn’t considered an early delivery. She’s only half a month away from the original expected date.”
Lily seemed rather shocked by this, evident by the look on her face. “I thought the last time we met her she mentioned that she had not been pregnant for more than half a year?”
Odell completely ignored this statement and returned with a question of his own. “Were you the one who hung up on her when she called yesterday afternoon?”
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Lily suddenly turned horridly pale. “.... | figured you were in a bad mood at the time and since you were resting, | didn’t want you to be disturbed, so | hung up for you.”
“Then why did you delete the phonerecord?”
Lily lowered her head and said apologetically,”I’m sorry, that was out of line.”
Odell looked at her sternly. “Miss Lily, it seems that I’ve been too cordial with you.”
Lily frowned and expressed unhappily,"What do you mean by this? Apart from this one minor incident, I’ve done nothing else.”
“On the surface.” After a pause, he turned around and looked through the window on the door to see Sylvia who was still sleeping on the bed. He made up his mind. “On the subject of our engagement, | can help you talk to Master Springsteen if you don’t want to to clarify things with him. As for Madam Springsteen, | think it’s better if you speak to her and ask her to stop troubling Sylvia in the future.”
The look in Lily's eyes wavered. She began to grow anxious and asked, “Odell, are you going to forfeit our marriage?” “There’s never been a marriage to begin with.”
“We got engaged in front of all our relatives and friends!”
Odell looked back at her with an ominous look in his eyes.
Lily was startled by this look and shrank into herself.
“Quiet, don’t you wake her up. If you do, I'll make sure Master
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Springsteen finds out about you coming to me to propose an engagement,” he spoke with zero affection in his voice. Lily became flustered and upset.
She was panicking because of the way Odell looked at her with such hostility. She was upset because from the beginning to the end, it was clear that he was on Sylvia’s side!
She was an unbecoming woman who came from a wholly insignificant background like she was unworthy!
At least Sylvia was the renowned Mrs. Sunflower in the past but now, she was nothing but a worthless castaway, kicked out of the Art Association and mocked by the masses!
Lily suppressed her boiling rage and asked with a smile, “What’s your plan now? Are you going to remarry her because she claims that she needs you? Are you going to help your brother take care of his child?”
Odell’s eyes gleamed icily. “The boy is mine. If you ever dare to say that in front of me again, I'll make sure that the Springsteen family will never see the light of day so long as | breathe!”
Lily drew a large step back.
Her eyes were wide open with horror , and her face pale like a sheet of paper.
She observed his vicious expression that seemed like he
would not hesitate to destroy her right then and there and exclaimed,“ Master Carter, that’s absurd. How could you say something like that?”
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She covered her face in her hands and ran down the stairs.
Odell barely even spared a look at her. He pushed the door open and went back into the ward. The ward was warm and tranquil as always.
Sylvia was still sleeping soundly, but Odell observed that it did not seem like she was facing this side of the bed when he went outside just now.
He suspected something and slowly drew closer to the bed and stared intently at her face.
Sylvia lay motionless.
She must have not felt his presence in the room
because after a while, her eyes seemed to move underneath her eyelids and she gently, ever so slowly pried her eyes open. Only to immediately meet a pair of smiling eyes, devious and deeply amused.
Odell was staring right at her.
She was caught red-handed and figured there was no need to pretend she was sleeping anymore.
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“You... When did you wake up?” She rubbed her eyes, acting as if she had just woken up. Odell leaned in closer, drawing his handsome face only inches away from hers.
He smiled mischievously at her.
Sylvia made a look and muttered,“You don’t have totell me if you don’t want to.”
“| woke up just a little earlier than you,” he stated.
“Ah.” Sylvia tried to turn away to look the other way.
The moment she turned, Odell grabbed her by her chin and made her turn to face him. He applied just enough strength so that she could not resist him, but not to a point where it would hurt her. She stared pointedly at him.
“Is something the matter?” she asked meekly. “Nothing, | just wanted to see your face.” He observed her like she was a curious experiment subject.
There was no longer the same look of hostility on his face. He seemed considerably more pleasant than when he was talking to Lily.
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She flashed such a brilliant smile that her eyes curved into the shape of a half-crescent moon. She smiled until she revealed a row of speckless, shining teeth underneath her lips.
Odell narrowed his eyes. After taking in the sight of her smile, he smiled as well and asked her suspiciously,"What’s so funny?” “| heard everything,” Sylvia answered.
She dropped the act. She figured that he must have put two and two together and knew that she had been awake the entire time.
Odell leaned in closer and kissed her.
After he had enough of kissing her, Sylvia slowly whispered,” Odell, don’t you think you're a little too cruel with Miss Lily? | have a feeling that she might have a thing for you.”
Odell made a look. “Do you want me to fix things with her?”
Sylvia changed her mind. “Well, that won’t be necessary.”
Odell playfully scoffed and pinched her face. “You should worry about yourself first before worrying about others.” Sylvia snickered and nodded.
Meanwhile, Lily bolted out of the hospital and went back to her car in the parkinglot.
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Apart from the driver, Madam Springsteen was also inside the car.
Upon noticing her red-eyed and visibly agitated appearance, Madam Springsteen asked anxiously, “Lily, what's wrong? Was it that wretched woman?”
Lily gnashed her teeth. “I didn’t see her.”
“Then what made you run out so quickly? What made you end up like this?”
“| met Master Carter. He wants to tell Grandpa about the truth behind our engagement. He also wants me to pass a message to you. He says that you should stop bothering Sylvia from here on!”
“What? Are you sure that b*tch didn’t hypnotize him with some kind of drug?” “He also said...” “What else did he say?”
Lily gnashed her teeth angrily and said,”| asked him if he was going to help his brother raise the child, to which he immediately responded by saying that if | ever said something like that again, he’d make sure that it will be the end of our family!”
Madam Springsteen's face darkened. “How could he say such a thing? He must take you for a joke. I'll have a word with him right away!”
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With that, she prepared to step out of the car.
Lily managed to grab her just in time. “Grandma, maybe it’s my fault. | shouldn’t have said something like that to him to begin with.”
“Everything you said is true. Isn’t he going to tell your grandfather everything just so that he could be together with that wretched woman? It’s Thomas’ boy that she gave birth to. Why would he bear the responsibility of looking after his brother’s son?”
Lily lowered her head and whispered as if she was disclosing a dark secret, “He told me that Sylvia’s baby was his.”
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“What?!” Madam Springsteen screamed in complete astonishment.
Lily added,”He also said that Sylvia didn’t give birth prematurely and that there's only half a month left before her due date.” Madam Springsteen put up her fingers and begancounting.
If it was just as Odell claimed, would this not suggest that she was pregnant with this child even before she went to Galston with Thomas?
All along, the child was Odell’s?
“No... No, | heard from Ramona that the b*tch had been divorced from Odell long before she went to Galston with Thomas. | heard that the two of them had been involved long before they even departed for Galston.”
“Maybe she was still secretly involved with Odell at the time, we just didn’t know about it yet.”
“Hmph, what a scoundrel !” Madam Springsteen cussed, then immediately speculated. “This only makes it more likely that the boy is Thomas’.”
Lily's expression shifted. “Are you saying that she’s intentionally claiming that the boy is Odell’s to convince him to be with her?”
“What other bargaining chip does she have by this point apart from the boy?” Madam Springsteen expressed angrily,“Looks like my last meeting with her failed to
instill any fear in her, to
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“What?!” Madam Springsteen screamed in complete astonishment.
Lily added, “He also said that Sylvia didn’t give birth prematurely and that there’s only half a month left before her due date.” Madam Springsteen put up her fingers and began counting.
If it was just as Odell claimed, would this not suggest that she was pregnant with this child even before she went to Galston with Thomas?
All along, the child was Odell’s?
“No... No, | heard from Ramona that the b*tch had been divorced from Odell long before she went to Galston with Thomas. | heard that the two of them had been involved long before they even departed for Galston.”
“Maybe she was still secretly involved with Odell at the time, we just didn’t know about it yet.”
“Hmph, what a scoundrel !” Madam Springsteen cussed, then immediately speculated. “This only makes it more likely that the boy is Thomas’.”
Lily's expression shifted. “Are you saying that she’s intentionally claiming that the boy is Odell’s to convince him to be with her?”
“What other bargaining chip does she have by this point apart from the boy?” Madam Springsteen expressed angrily,‘Looks like my last meeting with her failed to instill any fear in her, to think that she still had such an ace up her sleeve!”
Sylvia spent two more days in the hospital before she was finally discharged.
It was a sunny day at the hospital.
Odell carried her in his arms the entire way out.
Aunt Tonya carried Flint, with both Isabela and Liam trailing closely after her.
Sylvia could barely feel the sting of the freezing weather outside before she was put inside the car.
Odell got into the car right after, holding her in his arms the entire time.
Sylvia could barely move, not that she had the strength to do so anyway. She relied on him for everything. Once the car began to move, she looked out the car window and soon realized that they were not headed back to her place. She asked,”Odell, where are we going?”
“Home.” He patted her head and emphasized ,“To ourhome.”
Something gleamed in Sylvia’s eyes.
Isabel, who was sitting in the front row, turned around and expressed joyously,‘Mommy, Baddie had someone move all of your things to our house. We'll never be separated again!”
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Sylvia cast a look at Odell.
He returned the same look at her. Upon noticing her silence, he narrowed his eyes and asked, “Why, don’t you want to move back with us?”
“No, | just haven't...”
“Haven't what?”
“Haven't prepared myself for this.”
Things were progressing so quickly. She never even imagined that his engagement with Lily was not real the entire time.
Only three days ago, on New Year's eve, she was convinced that she was going to have to spend the rest of her life with Flint as a single mother.
To think that she was going to be reunited with Isabel, Liam, and Odell. Everyone was coming together as a family again. She was moved and smiled as she thought of this. Odell gently lifted her chin and planted a kiss on her lips when he saw her in this state.
She felt her face glowing red hot as she darted a shy look at him.
Aunt Tonya and the kids were in the same car as them. Odell grinned. He took her in his arms in a tight embrace.
Even if she refused to move in with him, he would still make her do so one way or another as he was going to keep her by his side.
In time, the car swerved into the old district and stopped in front of Odell’s place.
Aunt Tonya held Flint in her arms and stepped out of the car first, followed closely by Isabel and Liam.
Odell carried Sylvia down the car.
Sebastian and all of the housemaids employed in the household were already waiting for them in the living room. Upon seeing Odell entering with Sylvia in his arms,
Sebastian greeted Sylvia with a bright smile, “Madam, welcome home.”
All of the housemaids greeted her in unison. All of them wore the same charming and welcoming smile.
Sylvia felt on the verge of tears. She smiled and thanked everyone, “Thank you, Sebastian. Thank you, everyone.”
Sebastian felt like crying as well. He could not even fathom how much Sylvia and Aunt Tonya had to endure over the last half year.
He was choked up with tears as he expressed, “No need. It’s only part of our duties.”
Aunt Tonya smiled pleasantly. “Alright, enough talk. Let’s get Sylvia some rest and take her back to the room.” Sebastian nodded cordially and had everyone make way for the master of the household.
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Odell carried Sylvia up the stairs until they reached the bedroom on the second floor, the bedroom they once shared.
The layout of the bedroom was as familiar as always, and it was clean and tidy. Upon entering, he set her down on the bed.