Exposing the Charade of Deep Affection (PDF)

Chapter 9

Chapter 9 Ashley Is Pregnant

Ashley was stunned. Then she gawked at the doctor. “I…”

Seeing her in a daze, the doctor frowned. “We are talking about legal responsibility here. Signing is no

joke.”

“Let me. I’m the patient’s wife.” I walked over to the doctor, took the pen, and signed.

The doctor looked at me and frowned. “Are you sure you’re a family member?”

I put down the pen, glanced at Ashley, and said indifferently, “If lovers can be considered as family ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

members, then she is a family, too.”

With that, I walked over to the side wall and leaned against it. The doctor looked at us with an

expression that said, “You guys have a messy relationship.”

With her head down and her face flushed, Ashley stood in front of the doctor and said, “Doctor, please.

Please save him.”

The doctor nodded, said no more, and went into the operating room.

I stood against the wall for a few minutes, and my legs were sore. So, I looked at Roy and said, “Mr.

Austen, I have something to do, so I’m leaving. Call me if anything.”

Seeing that I was about to leave, Roy was surprised. “Mrs. Hinton… You’re leaving now?”

I pursed my lips and nodded.

Then I looked at Dale, who was standing aside. “Dale, you may go back, too. He won’t die.”

Then I walked straight out of the hospital.

“Tabatha.” Ashley caught up to me downstairs in the hospital.

She was so obsessed. After a terrible night and a busy morning, I was indeed not in the mood to waste

my time on her.

I looked back at her and said calmly, “Yes?”

“When are you going to divorce Walter?” She looked at me and cut to the chase.

I froze for a second and wanted to grin. I half-squinted at her. “What the fuck does that have anything to

do with you?”

She was calm enough. “As you saw, he was willing to give up his life for me. You don’t love him, and

vice versa. Why can’t you just let go so that he and I can be together? You don’t deserve to be with him

because of your sordid past. Leave him. Let me stay with him for the rest of our lives.”

I was beat, so I didn’t want to continue to talk to her. I took a deep breath and said, “If you want me to

divorce him, fine. Let him come to me himself.”

I pinched my brows, feeling tired, and I turned to leave.

She said, “I’m pregnant. It’s Walter’s. The baby is two months old right now. It happened the time you

went back to the Conner’s place.”

I stood in situ clenching my fists, my head buzzing. Ashley was pregnant?

It happened two months ago?

I remembered. It was my birthday that day. In the evening, Walter and I went back to the Conner’s

place. He was supposed to stay the night with me, but in the middle of the night, he said he had to go.

At that time, I thought he was not used to sleeping at the Conner’s place, so he left. I didn’t realize he

was going to have sex with Ashley.

I was such a pathetic woman who got cheated on.

“Tabatha, you know very well that now that I’m pregnant, no one from the Hinton family will side with

you anymore. Carley won’t have bastards as the descendants of the Hinton family. Besides, you are

still not pregnant after being married to Walter for two years. You have no reason to continue to be his

wife.” Her arguments hit the nail on the head indeed. Carley Minnie, Walter’s grandma, wouldn’t

tolerate bastards at all, and during those two years, Walter and I had been taking precautions, and we

had a tacit agreement not to talk about having kids.

At first, I thought Walter didn’t like kids, so he wasn’t in a hurry to have one. Now it seemed that it was

my kids that he didn’t want.

I raised my hand and pinched between my eyes, regaining my sanity. Looking at her face, which was

slightly red due to her excitement, I paused for a moment, smiled, and said, “Ashley, logically speaking,

Walter should be the one talking to me about our divorce. How come it is always you who is so eager

to urge me to divorce him?”

I leaned closer to her, smiled, and said slowly, “Is it true that Walter doesn’t want to divorce me at all?

That leaves you with no choice but to come here and push me. It seems that his so-called love for you

is nothing.”

“You…” She pulled a long face. “Tabatha, stop gloating. He doesn’t ask you for a divorce, because he

is well-educated and doesn’t want to hurt you. He wants you to leave the Hinton’s place with dignity. Be

sensible. How long do you think you can stay with him now that I’m pregnant?”

“Really?” I was amused. “You said so yourself that he is well-educated. In other words, he won’t push

me if I don’t propose a divorce. As long as we stay married, the baby you’re having will stay a bastard.

Ashley, what are you going to tell others with your belly bulging every day? Are you gonna tell them

that it’s a bastard due to your affair with Walter? Do you think the Hinton family will force me to divorce

him because of a mistress with no title?”

Seeing her slightly pale face, I chuckled and continued, “Ashley, do you think you are the only woman

in the world who can give birth? If the Hinton family wants offspring, they can just talk to me. They will

never need a bastard born by a divorced woman with no title.”

“You…” She couldn’t complete her sentence at all. She glared at me, extremely upset.

Seeing her like that, I was in a better mood. I stepped back and turned to leave.