Was she afraid that she might get attached to her baby if she spent too much with it? Had she planned to leave a long tago? Brenda was shocked by her own thoughts. She immediately grabbed Olivia's hand and questioned her, "Are you not carrying your child because you are thinking of leaving? Ollie, promisethat you will not do anything stupid. You and Sam have only been married to each other recently. Both him and his mother treat you so well. Besides, the child was just born and needs his mother." Olivia was slightly moved by her words. Her eyes reddened. "However, mom, this marriage has been a joke since the beginning. It has always beenwho's making the efforts in this relationship. It's all my fault for being too conceited. I thought that there's nothing that I can't achieve." However, life gave her a big blow.
"What do you mean by one-sided?" Brenda narrowed her eyes. "Silly Ollie, what are you talking about? Aren't you both in love with each other? Wasn't it an autonomous relationship?" "That's exactly why." Technically, it wasn't exactly an autonomous relationship. Even though both of them were in it together, if they had not slept together that night, they would never have ended up together.
Thus, it was almost similar to an arranged marriage.
"Since you had the freedom to choose, why are you saying these nonsenses now? Would Sam marry you if he didn't like you in the first place? He treats you so well. He even had custom diamond rings made for you both, you silly girl." Was that so? Did Sam... really like her? They had been together for so long, but Olivia had never thought about that. It was not that she didn't want to, but she didn't have the courage to ponder on it.
She was afraid that she would start to feel disappointed and feel hopeless once she started thinking about it.
As Brenda had spoken out then, Olivia could no longer run away from the problem anymore. She had to consider it seriously.
Did Sam really like her? "Mom, can we stop talking about this?" "Why not? If you don't make things clear, you will always be trapped in this state. Don't you feel sorry for your child? You don't even want to hold him. If we don't get this straight right now, what is going to happen to the child if you run away from these?" Olivia didn't answer.
"Oh Ollie, if a man doesn't love you, I am certain you will know immediately. Ask yourself, does he really not love you? On the day you gave birth, you were unconscious after the child was born. When I went into the room, I saw him holding your hand tightly by your side. He never left your side throughout the time. He didn't even really look at the child. I knew at that moment that you married the right person. At least, his heart would ache for the pain you had to endure and he knows about the hardship that you went through. He could only feel that if he loves you. Do you think that he would feel that way for just anyone?" Brenda reached out and rubbed Olivia's head as she said that, "So, don't always overthink." Olivia was slightly surprised at her mother's words. She knew that Sam was guarding beside her when she was unconscious. However, she wasn't really moved by his actions, perhaps due to the fact that she had made up her mind to leave him at that time.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHowever, after hearing how Brenda described it, she was able to re-imagine the scene from that day.
Perhaps, it was really her who was overthinking.
She understood it was in the past yet she becso petty when she cto know that the person he had saved was Vera. Why couldn't she be more understanding? Olivia closed her eyes and turned away from the chaos in her mind. "Mom, I know. Please go out first. I want to be alone." "Well, consider it carefully and think about what I had said." In the evening, Olivia lay on the bed with her eyes closed but she wasn't asleep.
Suddenly, a child's cry cfrom the next room.
She paused. The child's cry was clear and loud in the quiet night. His cries pierced her heart like a needle.
She remained still on the bed because she knew the child was being taken care of.
However, nobody attended to the child as he continued to sob for a while. There was also no sound of footsteps from the next room either.
Olivia opened her eyes slowly and wondered if her mother and mother-in-law had left. She thought it was unlikely for both of them to not be there as they were usually very attentive to the child.
Then, why didn't they attend to the baby? Soon, Olivia figured out the reason herself. Brenda had probably told Emma about their conversation from the afternoon.
Hence, the two of them must have deliberately ignored the child to force her to attend to the child herself. Olivia continued to lie on the bed. The child had been crying for a few minutes and there was no sign of him stopping.
She was getting more and more unsettled by the crying. Eventually, she could no longer stand it. She got out of bed barefooted and ran out to open the door of the room next to hers.
The child's cry beceven louder as she went into the room. There were two baby cribs in the room; one was pink and the other was blue. Olivia saw the little figurelying in the blue baby crib, dressed in light blue clothes.
The baby was wearing the clothes she had bought. When she was initially planning to leave, she didn't know if she was having a baby girl or boy so she bought two sets of everything in each color.
She even bought two cribs in different colors. As it was a boy, he had been using everything, from clothes to cribs, all in blue color.
After he was born, Olivia had never paid attention to anything related to her child.
Upon seeing the baby in the crib then, she was suddenly enveloped by a wave of emotions.
She felt a pressure in her chest as she walked slowly towards the blue crib.
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The crying beclouder, and it was almost piercing through her heart.
The baby in blue clothes lay in the chib while waving his hands and feet around. Ollie finally saw the child clearly as she reached the front of the crib.
She barely took a look at the baby ever since they were discharged, let alone carried him.
The child lying in the crib was small and soft, and his light blue baby clothing made his skin look even fairer.
She couldn't help reaching out her hand to pinch his chubby cheeks gently.
His skin was soft, and very bouncy. She couldn't help pinching him again.
The child miraculously stopped crying after she pinched his cheeks twice and stared at her curiously with his two dark eyes.
She felt the numbness in her heart the moment their eyes met.
Her eyes then becmoist and reddened. She stretched her hands e out to pick up the child. Afraid of hurting him, her movements were careful, and she coaxed him softly. "Mummy's here. Stop crying. There, there." In another room not far away, Sam, Emma, and Brenda waited together. Sam paced back and forth in the room anxiously.
Brenda, being his mother-in-law, remained quiet. However, Emma who had a headache from him pacing around, couldn't stand it and scolded him, "Sit down. Why are you pacing around like this?" "Mom, Ollie..." "Don't you dare mention her name. You b*stard!" X