Chapter 256: Chapter 139: Just Want to Please You 3
Afterward, he overheard from a waiter that she had been personally ironing and collecting his clothes at the hotel. He suddenly realized that she might have discovered the bottle of contraceptive pills he had left in the closet.
Later, he went to America to celebrate his mother’s birthday, always guarding against her. Sure enough, she wanted to leave, and she even had Christine Quinn arrange her departure.
Of course, he wouldn’t allow it. After all, he had not yet achieved the goal of involving Skyler Jones, and besides, he still held a strong interest in her...
So, he conspired with Christine Quinn, forcing her to take the blame for the contraceptive pill incident.
Rebecca Quentin ultimately wasn’t his match, once again falling into the gentle trap he had created.
As expected, Skyler Jones began to make a big deal using his interactions with Isabella Joanna against Rebecca Quentin...
Rebecca Quentin had always been uneasy and anxious about their relationship. After learning about this matter, she fell into despair and immediately started investigating upon returning to the Flowery Kingdom.
He could have stopped her from discovering the truth, but he chose to remain silent because he wanted to see what kind of response she would come up with, and simultaneously, he wanted to push Skyler Jones into action...
What he didn’t expect was that she chose to team up with Skyler Jones against him...
This particularly angered him, so he decided to counter the plan.
The development of events was entirely as he predicted; Skyler Jones finally acknowledged his identity, fulfilling his mother’s wish to meet Skyler Jones.
However, after separating from her, every night he spent alone gradually became sleepless nights.
He thought she would be unable to recover, but unexpectedly, when he went to Y City to find Skyler Jones, he saw her intimately interacting with Skyler Jones.
That night, after going out for socializing, he drank more alcohol than usual and finally ended up at her apartment...
He still can’t recall what he said to her that night, vaguely remembering that he seemed to have forgotten a lot of unpleasant things between them, only wanting to return to the days they were together...
The next day, he woke up in her apartment, only then realizing that somehow, he had become so attached to the feeling of having her around...
This feeling was unexpected; he became cautious and started to avoid it. So, he confronted her in a cruel way to make her know that he had no attachment to her, and revealed the relationship between Christine Quinn and Skyler Jones, urging her to give up on Skyler Jones completely.
She indeed left Skyler Jones and went to Alton to find Christine Quinn.
He thought that this would completely sever their ties, but unexpectedly, she was pregnant with his child.
He had to admit that when he learned she was pregnant, his first reaction was sheer joy...
He was about to become a father, a feeling of indescribable satisfaction and happiness; he rushed eagerly to find her.
After some effort, he finally saw her with a bulging belly, and who would have thought that in trying to avoid him, she almost got into an accident.
Seeing her lying on the hospital bed, looking so thin and frail, his heart was filled with mixed emotions...
Heartache, self-blame, guilt, shame, reluctance...
All these were feelings he once didn’t want to admit; fearing he would uncontrollably fall deeper, he therefore brought in a lawyer to force himself to sign an agreement with her, completely severing ties regarding the child.
He thought this would be enough, that they would be strangers from then on, yet...
His heart gradually became restless.
When with Alice Robinson, he often found himself absent-minded, transitioning from a trial relationship to complete indifference, increasingly thinking about her...
He once again couldn’t control himself and went to find her...
He accompanied her for a prenatal check-up, watching her come out excitedly from the examination room.
Though the five-month-old baby looked unsightly in the ultrasound image, he was as excited as she was...
It was from that moment that he realized he had unknowingly come to care so much...
Thus, he gave themselves a chance, choosing November 30th as their wedding day.
If fate arranged for the baby to be born on the due date, then as long as she agreed to cooperate with him, their days together wouldn’t be far off...
But, it wasn’t until today that he realized he had always overlooked her feelings; her thoughts now were not what they used to be...
This night, it wasn’t just Howard Geoffrey who suffered from insomnia.