Although she had no feelings for the Harris family, the blood ties could not be changed.
If they were to meet again, there would definitely be a gap among them.
Instead of making things difficult for him, she planned to withdraw herself from his life now and let him do whatever he wanted to do.
He would scruple about her if she was around.
She did not want to put him in trouble. She did not want him to stop doing the things that he wanted to do and felt regret for the rest of his life.
At this moment, as she faced her daughter’s words, she did not know how to answer.
The only thing she could do was to hold her tightly and warm her with the warmth of her body.
“Mummy.” Simona buried her head in Loredana’ arms, not knowing if she was affected by Loredana’ emotions, she said in a low voice, “I won’t ask anymore, mummy don’t be sad.”
She kissed her daughter’s forehead, “With you guys by mummy’s side, mummy won’t be sad.”
The scenery outside the car window kept receding. The city was still bustling. The streets were still full of people.
She looked out of the car window and her expression darkened.
She had already missed him when she just left.
The two children were quiet at the moment. She took out her phone and clicked on the messages page. There were so many words she wanted to tell him, but she did not know where to start from when she tried to message him.
She stared at the phone screen for a long time. When it went black, she pressed it again to light it up, many times over and over again …
On the other hand, Cormac arrived at the hospital. Maxina was slightly stunned when she saw him. He had come once on the day when she was admitted to the hospital. After that, he did not visit her anymore, only Boyce visited her sometimes.
“Is Loredana okay?” Maxina voiced out first. She had been worried about Loredana. She looked repulsed that day.
Cormac narrowed his eyes, as if he sensed that something was wrong. Boyce said that Maxina wanted to talk to him about Loredana, so he did not go to the company to see Sean. As it was about Loredana, he came here first.
However, judging from Maxina’s look, it seemed Maxina did not have anything to talk to him.
What did Loredana want to do?
No…
He seemed to realize what Loredana wanted to do. When he turned around to leave, Maxina called out to him, “That day when Loredana came, she knew about my situation. She is pregnant now, so I can only ask you to take more care of her. I said something that I shouldn’t have said that day. You help me tell her, if she doesn’t want to know, I won’t mention it again in the future.”
Cormac turned around to look at her, his face was cold, “What did you say that day?”
Maxina turned around and walked to the window. He and Loredana were husband and wife now, there was nothing to hide from him.
She hesitated for a moment before speaking slowly, “Loredana is now your wife, you have the right to know about her, I won’t hide it from you, I am not her biological mother, her biological mother is Jolene.” That was after she married Garrett. She had been taking Chinese herbs to do the regimen because she could not get pregnant because of the cold in her womb. After half a year of treatment, she finally conceived a child.
At that time, Garrett was also happy. Beulah did not interrupt their marriage yet as Garrett had not yet revealed his true colour.
She thought that was the beginning of happiness, yet it was the beginning of a tragedy in her life.
When she was pregnant for seven months, she accidentally found out that Garrett had a mistress. The mistress was Beulah. At that time, she could not accept it and was so emotional that she had premature labour and gave birth to a baby girl, but because the baby was premature, plus she was emotional, the baby’s heartbeat was weak and could not be saved after salvaging.
Just when she was desperate, Jolene met her with a newborn baby in her arms.
She claimed that the baby was Stanley’s. She knew very little about this half-brother, except that her father had him with a woman before he got married. That woman was a prostitute. However, her father had confirmed that Stanley was a family member of the Lennon family.
She had met her brother, but because of his mother’s status, which led to his identity not being made public, not many people knew about him, only the closer members of the family knew his existence. At that time, Jolene felt that Maxina was the closest person to Stanley, as she was Stanley’s sister after all.
This child belonged to the Lennon family as well, so she asked Maxina to raise her.
Maxina had just lost her baby and was in a bad mood. Suddenly, there was a child. She did not repel her but was comforted by her. After all, she was a newborn and she belonged to the Lennon family. Jolene was in a very bad state. She did not leave much behind for the baby. She only gave her a name and a necklace. The necklace was the only thing that she had left for Loredana.
Before she left, she told Maxina that she had arranged a marriage for the child, with the only son of that Mendelsohn family.
She did not tell Maxina why she wanted the marriage. She just hoped that she could honour her promise.
She decided to raise that child and did not want Garrett to reject her, so she lied to him that Loredana was born prematurely and hid it from Garrett.
Regarding the marriage, she continued to lie that she was familiar with Ashley and that was why the marriage was fixed. In fact, she was not, she only said that to deceive Garrett.
Not knowing if it was because of having a child, Garrett returned to the family and treated her better than before. She thought that Garrett had changed his mind, so she canceled the idea of divorce. She decided to forgive him and live a good life with him.
However, Garrett’s change for the better was not genuine repentance, but he wanted to seize her property.
She had been deceived by Garrett, who secretly had never broken up with that woman. When he seized her property completely, he stopped pretending to please her. He even forced her to divorce and sent her abroad so that she did not appear in front of him.
Thinking about it now, how stupid she was, how could she believe the words of an unfaithful man?
Her body and her heart were hurt. Her property was also seized.
Her revenge against Garrett was more than the death of her son, it was the hatred that had been pent up inside her all these years.
Thinking of the past, she could not help but wept, “Loredana’ life is also bitter. I just hope that you are good. If I am still alive, I hope that you can forgive me for my previous negative state. I shall live well, at least to see her newborn child. Although she was not my biological daughter, we rely on each other all these years, it’s no different from a biological mother and daughter.”
“So, she knows her background?” Cormac’s voice was low and deep, with an imperceptible complexity and bewilderment.
“She left before I could finish my words. She was somewhat unable to accept and was not willing to hear or believe, and now that you know, I wish you can take care of her.” Maxina had a pleading tone. In this world, the only person she worried about was Loredana.
Cormac pursed the corner of his lips and walked out the next second.
The fact that Loredana met Jeffrey meant that she must have known about it, otherwise, she would not meet him alone. Her abnormal behaviour had a reasonable explanation now.
The driver stood beside the car and waited for him in the car park outside the hospital. When he saw him come out, he immediately pulled open the door but Cormac did not get in. Instead, he asked for the ca key and got into the driver’s seat, “You take a taxi back.”
After saying that, he stepped on the throttle and drove the car out.
He did not go to the company but went straight back to the villa.
The car stopped at the villa. He pushed open the door and got down. Sean’s car also stopped at that time. He pushed open the door quickly and got down to catch up with Cormac.
“Bother…”
Cormac had always taken care of him and he always called him brother. Although it might be not suitable for him to call Cormac brother now because of his current identity, the habits and feelings over the years had not changed.
Cormac paused his footsteps for a moment. He turned around and saw Sean running hurriedly.
“I’ve been waiting at the company for a while. My mother called me and asked me to go back, so I decide on myself to come and meet you. I know what you want to ask.” Sean handed him a letter, “You’ll understand after you read it.”
Cormac’s face was as deep as water, no joy or anger was visible. Even without reading it, he could guess what was written in the letter. He reached out his hand and took it. He did not unfold it to read the content immediately, but glanced at Sean, “In the future, don’t come over again.”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.