Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
While listening to his instructions, Angela cleaned the blood stains around her wound. Finally, after she bandaged it and sorted out the first aid kit, she said to the man on the other end of the camera, “Do you really have to leave the base? Are you never coming back?”
“Yes.”
“What about your engagement with Annie?”
“I’ll cancel it.”
“C-Can’t you consider Annie’s feelings?”
“Do you think she’d be happy if I married her without loving her?”
Angela couldn’t answer this question all of a sudden, but she knew that Annie had fallen in love with him at first sight.
“Annie really likes you.”
“Her one-sided love wouldn’t be able to keep us together. A happy marriage requires effort from both sides for it to work.” He began reasoning with her all of a sudden.
Angela couldn’t refute, but she didn’t know what else to do.
“Besides, wouldn’t you be sad if I married another woman?” the man questioned in a low voice.
Angela suddenly looked in the direction of the camera. Perhaps it was because they were talking through a screen, but she found it much easier to speak to him.
“I wouldn’t be sad if you married Annie. I’ll be happy for the both of you and wish you the best instead. I’ve decided to continue my studies abroad and live there for a long time, so I won’t disturb you.” Angela had already come up with a back up plan.
“Then, why did you cry so sadly earlier?”
He scoffed. Angela fell silent and pursed her lips, her head lowering in embarrassment.
“Is it because of me?” Richard’s voice sounded in the room again, as if reading her mind.
Angela took a deep breath and raised her head firmly. “I admit that I feel sad, but this sadness will only be temporary in order to secure Annie’s happiness.
Richard, I will not allow you to disappoint Annie. You can try to accept her and like her. I believe that any kind of feelings can be developed.”
“If it were you, would you be able to develop feelings for another man as soon as you meet him? Are you going to forget about me just like that?” In the room, the man’s slightly hoarse voice carried a hint of anger and frustration.
Angela’s heart throbbed suddenly. The conversation was about him and Annie, but why was he questioning her instead?
“It’s not that you don’t know how quickly I can change my partners. I was still deeply in love with Dexter earlier, and I would’ve done anything for him, but I still forgot about him in the blink of an eye.
Of course I can do the same with you.” Angela’s gaze was trained in one place, and she didn’t dare to look up in case Richard saw her feigned look of calmness at the moment.
At that moment, the man in the SUV faced the girl on the screen with a dark expression, seemingly boiling with anger inwardly, and his handsome face was as cold as ice. However, there was a sense of frustration in him that he couldn’t seem to vent even though he wanted to.
As Angela listened to the silence on the other end, she bit her lip worriedly. Had she said too much? Did she hurt his feelings? Wait, wasn’t this what she wanted? Though it hurt now, it would guarantee Annie’s happiness in the future, so what was the problem?
She thought Richard would continue to talk to her, but after she waited for ten minutes without any response, she finally exclaimed in surprise, “Richard, are you still there?”
“Richard…”
He stopped replying to her..
Angela faltered for a few moments before she took her clothes and went back to her own room. She didn’t want to stay in a place that he could monitor at any time.
As Angela returned to her room, she suddenly raised her head and glanced at her surroundings, fearing that even her small room was under his surveillance. Fortunately, she did not find anything suspicious.
She sat on the bed, thinking of what she had just said to him, and she realized how hurtful it sounded, even to her. Besides, Richard had witnessed how she had once loved Dexter and how ruthlessly she had forgotten about him in the blink of an eye, which made her words extremely convincing, as if she could really fall in love with another man in the next However, Angela knew that it was not true, and she couldn’t fall in love with anyone else. She had only fallen in love with Dexter because she was lonely and sensitive while staying abroad, and Dexter took advantage of that to enter her world.
When she was with Dexter, he tried his best to move her, and often acted weak and pitiful in front of her. Dexter was just playing the role of a perfect lover, which made him different from Richard, whose feelings were genuine. Everything he did touched the depths of her soul, making her deeply moved and unable to leave.
Once Ariel heard that Angela recovered from her fever, she returned to the house. At eight o’clock in the evening, she knocked on Angela’s door.
For some reason, when Angela heard the knock on the door, she hurriedly went and opened the door. However, the person outside the door was the person she hated, Ariel.
Ariel looked at her with a smile. “Can I go inside and have a talk with you?”
“We have nothing to talk about.” Angela didn’t want to chat with her at all.
“I have something that you might want to see, “I’m not interested,” Angela refused coldly. Although Ariel told her about Annie, she knew that Ariel had done so with bad intentions, so she didn’t need to be grateful to her.
“I just happened to catch a video of your passionate kiss with Captain Lloyd on the top of the mountain last time. Do you think that you can still hide your relationship with him if I give this to Annie?” Ariel crossed her arms and scoffed.
In an instant, Angela’s face flushed as she panicked. She hurriedly stretched out her hand and said, “Hand it over.”
“Why should I? However, you don’t have to worry. As long as you do as I say, I won’t give it to Annie.”
“What do you want me to do?” Angela frowned.
“It’s simple. Break up with Captain Lloyd and leave him alone. Don’t think about being together with him in this life,” Ariel ordered with a sneer.
Hearing that, Angela immediately replied, “I’ve already cut off my ties with Richard.”
“Really? How are you going to prove that?” Ariel asked, not wanting to be fooled.
“What proof do you need? I always do as I say.” Angela’s gaze was resolute.
Ariel frowned. “What makes you say that?