Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
Seeing that, Jared was ignited with fury. “What a load of nonsense.” Immediately, he realized that Ellen waking up late recently and her weak mental state seemed to be connected to this issue.
“Don’t worry. As long as I’m here, no one can hurt you.” Jared wrapped her into his embrace and led her back into the living room. Once they were both seated on the couch, he took her phone and dialed the number back, only to be notified that the number didn’t exist.
At the same time, he discovered that she had more than fifty missed calls, and some of them were made at midnight, making it clear that this was not just simple harassment. He then opened her text messages and was met with a pile of terrifying messages, which he deleted for her.
“Have you not been sleeping well for the past two days because these calls have been harassing you at night?” Jared asked, his eyes narrowing.
Ellen nodded. “Yes. I thought it was just a prank at first, but I didn’t expect them to go so far.”
“I’ll take care of it tomorrow and make sure that they pay the price.” At that, he turned off her phone and let out a sigh before pulling her into his arms.
“I told you to tell me immediately if anyone. picks on you, no matter what it is,” he said to her in a low and firm voice. With the warmth and security emanating from him, Ellen felt the fear dissipating from her heart, and she said with a nod, “Okay, I will!”
Jared headed to the car and retrieved her dinner while he sat next to her with his laptop, watching her eat as if he were her parent. With him beside her, Ellen felt as if nothing could hurt her anymore, and her mind was soon cleared of the horrifying thoughts that had been plaguing her.
Jared raised his head and asked, “Can you sleep alone tonight?”
After giving it some thought, Ellen nodded. “Yes.”
Jared coughed lightly at her answer. He’d hoped that she would be afraid, but she was surprisingly brave enough. In that case, there was nothing else he could say.
“Alright then. Make sure you eat more. You’ve lost weight.” “Of course not! Look how my face got chubbier. Ellen thought she actually gained weight in the past few days.
Looking at her delicate face under the light, Jared reached over and pinched her soft cheeks. “That’s fine. I like it this way.” He curled his lips into a smile.
Ellen couldn’t help but mirror his smile when she suddenly realized that they sounded like a bickering couple. At the same time, Selena was listening to the report of the person she hired in a hotel room.
“I’ve already taken things a step further. If she’s living alone, it’ll definitely be affecting her mentally by now,” they announced.
“Use all your best tactics on her, I’ll pay you,” Selena ordered, eagerly awaiting the news of Ellen losing her mind.
Back at Connor’s home, Olivia was furious as she had accidentally stepped on a pile of dung and ruined her favorite pair of brand-name shoes when she went downstairs to take out the garbage that night.
Though she couldn’t bear to throw them away, she didn’t want to wash them either. But in the end, she endured the stench and went to clean her shoes. As she cleaned, she screamed inwardly, What kind of life is this?! Is this the life I’m supposed to lead from now on?!
She was now too afraid to even leave the house for groceries, fearing the ridicule of her acquaintances, so Connor had been buying the groceries for a week while she hid away from people.
She had no idea where her daughter went either, and she holed herself up in their rented house, suffering day after day. At this very moment, her husband wasn’t home yet, and she didn’t even know where he had gone.
In a certain luxurious condominium at Lockwood Village, Connor was entering an elevator. A woman holding a boy was seeing him off.
“Dad, will you come to play with me tomorrow?” the boy asked excitedly. “Of course. I’ll come to visit you every day,” Connor replied, returning his enthusiasm.
Aida’s face, however, darkened, especially when she heard Connor telling her about his current situation, which meant that he was doing even worse than her. No matter how broke she was, she still had the 150 thousand that she’d gotten from him. However, she refused to use this money, and she now relied on him for her daily. expenses.
“Nath feels like eating fruits tomorrow, so bring some of his favorites over.” Upon saying that, she took her son’s hand and went back into her house. Connor was the one who bought this house for her. He’d spent over 400 thousand for it and bought it under her name.
While he stood in the elevator, Connor, being in his fifties, sensed that Aida now looked down on him and no longer cared about him as much as before.
As he rode home on his motorcycle, he nearly ran into a car and ended up crashing to the ground himself. Seeing that, a young man arrogantly scolded him through the car window, “Learn how to ride a bike, you old geezer!”
Connor went dumbfounded all at once. All of a sudden, he recalled that when he still drove a Bentley, he was respected everywhere he went, and now, he had fallen to the point where he was scolded for riding a motorcycle. In an instant, the contrast struck him and rendered him distressed and filled with regret.
If he had taken care of Ellen and shared the money with her back then, he wouldn’t have ended up in this situation. If his wife and daughter hadn’t spent the money frivolously and exercised a little restraint, they would at least have some money left.
After crawling up from the ground, he patted. the dirt off his clothes and lifted his motorcycle off the ground before heading home. Once he returned, Olivia scurried over and demanded, “Why are you always so late? What have you been doing?”
Looking at her hideous, revolting expression, Connor boiled with anger and roared, “What I do is none of your business!” Olivia was taken aback by the fact that he dared to raise his voice at her.
“Connor, I can’t believe you dared to yell at me. It’s just my luck that I decided to stay with you!” Saying that, she slammed the door shut and locked herself in her room to sob.
Connor slumped on a chair, realizing that life really was rough now that he was strapped for cash.
It was half past eleven when Ellen finished her shower and returned to her room. As her phone was switched off, she read a book to pass time, and as she was reading, she gradually grew drowsy.
After she drifted off to sleep, al nightmare suddenly haunted her. In her dream, it was as if there was an evil ghost that she couldn’t get rid of, appearing in every corner of her room.
Ellen woke up with a start. When she opened her eyes and glanced at the alarm clock by her bed, it was exactly one in the morning. She instantly hugged herself close, a strong panic she had never felt before shrouding her, and once her fearful thoughts began, she couldn’t drive them away.
Feeling as if she was going to lose her mind if she didn’t find an outlet, Ellen yanked the door open and ran hurriedly in the direction of the master bedroom. When she arrived, she found that the door was ajar, and the inside was dimly lit.
At that point, she completely disregarded. the boundaries she should be keeping and stepped inside. However, upon seeing the man on the gray bed, she was shocked. He’s not asleep yet, and is still working?
“Y-You haven’t slept?” she asked sheepishly. “I was waiting for you.” Jared smiled in reply having expected that she would end up looking for him later that night out of fear.
Ellen blinked, the courage she had just mustered to barge into his room dissipating into thin air as she flushed red, not knowing if she should enter. “Come here.” He shifted his body, generously sharing his bed by leaving a large space for her to sleep on.
Ellen swallowed. Frankly speaking, she didn’t. want to stay alone in her room now. Over the past two days, she had been highly tense and couldn’t even sleep soundly as she kept having nightmares. All she wanted now was a good night’s sleep, and the only way she could do that was to stay by this man’s side.
She bit her lips and looked at his soft bed that was tempting her intensely under the light. With a gulp, she took a step toward the bed and asked in a small voice, “Won’t I bother you?”
“In that case, you can sleep on my bed, and I’l sleep on the couch.” At that, he lifted his sheets and got off the bed. Although he was clad in sleepwear, his figure was still as alluring as ever.
“No, no, you take the bed, and I’ll sleep on the couch,” Ellen refused. She did not dare to chase the owner of the house away, and she was more than willing to sleep on his couch anyway.
Jared raised an eyebrow. “Are you sure you want to sleep on the couch?”
Ellen nodded, thinking that sleeping on the couch was the best choice for her. She headed outside to retrieve her blanket and soon returned with it in her hands. Jared’s large couch was just as warm as a bed.
After setting up the blanket on the couch, Ellen got under it, only showing her face as she looked at the man sitting on the bed. “It’s late already. Let’s turn off the lights and go to sleep. Goodnight.”
Jared didn’t insist she slept on the bed anymore. After he turned off the light, he lay down with his arm as a pillow, but he couldn’t sleep at all. He turned to look at the slender figure on the couch through the moonlight outside the window, and his gaze darkened at once, as there was this burning desire in him.
“Are you asleep?” he asked in a hoarse voice. “Not yet.”
“Are you still afraid?” “Not anymore.” Ellen also felt extremely surprised. It was as though there was a strong magnetic field of safety around this man that could dispel all her fears.
“Sleep well, then,” he said warmly. “Goodnight.”
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