Chapter 985 You Can''t Keep the Baby


    Tommy watched all that happened. He thought for a while, then ran upstairs to look for Jack.


    Jack carried Tommy and walked down the stairs. He saw Leia fall to his knees to beg for forgiveness


    from her mother. "Please forgive me, Mom. I''m begging you, please don''t be angry, alright? I don''t want


    the baby anymore. I''ll go and get it induced tomorrow. Don’t cry." "Are you crazy? I won’t let you do


    that," Queenie eximed in surprise.


    Jack frowned. "What''s going on?"


    As soon as he spoke, the three people in the living room turned their heads toward the stairs. When


    Leia noticed him, she stood up and turned her body away.


    As her adoptive daughter for twenty years, Leia knew her father''s temperament.


    If she remained on her knees, Jack would definitely keep her kneeling as punishment.


    The floor was hard, and she had a bulging stomach. She would not be able to take it.


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    "Dad." Leia shifted her body to hide the bulging stomach from him.


    Jack had already noticed her stomach. He put Tommy down and walked over. "Turn around."


    Leia shuddered but did not move. "Is there something, Dad?" "What''s going on with your stomach?"


    Jack walked toward the couch. Leia would not be able to hide it anymore.


    Leia turned around while trembling. She lowered her head to hide the malice in her eyes and began to


    cry. "I''m sorry, Dad. It''s all my fault. You can hit me."


    She spoke loudly enough so that everyone in the living room could hear that. Queenie clutched her


    heart and looked like she would pass out at any time.


    Jack red at Leia''s round and bulging stomach sternly. He was no expert in obstetrics, but he could


    tell that the pregnancy was more than three months.


    "Is the child a Hilton?" He asked, furious after seeing that Brody had already left while Queenie was


    sitting on the couch with a pale face.


    How dare that man leave while the Norman household is in chaos?


    Leia sobbed and nodded. She tried to squeeze tears from her eyes to evoke pity from her parents. "It''s


    all my fault, Dad. The child is innocent."


    She was about to fall on her knees again. Queenie''s heart softened when she saw her frail daughter


    with a bulging stomach. She took her daughter''s hand and wanted to say something before tears fell


    from her eyes again. She shook her head and looked at her husband.


    The Normans did not own a big corporation, but they were fairly well- known in A City.


    She thought that the daughter she had raised had be pregnant before marriage and felt that she


    had failed her husband and her family. Her daughter would be the subject of ridicule, and her


    husband''s reputation might be affected.


    Bianca sighed, gently patted Queenie''s back, and said, "Dad, Leia isn''t in the physical condition to be


    punished. Shouldn''t wee together as a family and work out a solution?"


    Jack became angrier as he red at Leia''s bulging stomach. However, he was sensible enough not to


    ce his anger on Bianca.


    He sat down and red coldly at Leia.


    She shuddered again. She might hate them both, but she was nheless scared of Jack.


    She was already tired from standing, but without her parents'' permission, she dared not move a


    muscle.


    Bianca sighed again. That should have been none of her business, but she could only me herself for


    visiting at the wrong time.


    "Dad, won’t you let Leia sit down? She''s already heavily pregnant," she advised.


    Jack grunted coldly and pointed at the couch opposite him. "Sit down and tell me everything from the


    start."


    Leia weakly wiped away her tears and sat on the couch. Instantly, her weary feet felt a lot better.


    Under the gaze of the three people, Leia repeated her story, shifting the me to Brody.


    Jack was livid after hearing that. His hatred for Brody shot through the roof as he red at Leia''s


    bulging stomach. "Contact the hospital. The baby cannot be kept alive!"


    He wanted to abort the baby and have Leia cut all ties with the Hilton family.


    "No." "No!" Two people objected at once. One was Queenie, and the other was Leia.


    "I don''t want to lose this baby, Dad. I''ve already carried it for so many months. I don''t want it to go


    away..." Leia caressed her stomach and begged. She sounded so sincere that one might be forgiven


    for forgetting that she had tried to medically abort the baby.


    "She''s already so advanced in her pregnancy. It would be harmful to her body if the baby is aborted


    now. We can''t do that," Queenie said.


    Jack was feeling very upset by the two women. He turned to look at Bianca.


    Bianca knew that Jack was asking for her opinion. However, she also knew that her opinion might not


    be something Jack wanted to hear at that moment. She shut her mouth and shook her head.


    Tommy leaned quietly on Bianca. He did not know what was going on among the adults.


    Jack pressed his lips together tightly, not willing to negotiate.


    Leia was beginning to be afraid. She looked at Queenie, hoping that her mother would speak up for


    her. If she lost the baby, she would not have a hold on Brody.


    Brody might have been disrespectful earlier, but he wanted the child very much.


    If the child was aborted, Leia did not know how he was going to react. Her reputation was already in


    tatters. If word got out that she had gotten pregnant before marriage and had aborted the baby, she


    would not be able to survive in A City anymore!


    Queenie understood the agony of losing a child. She thought that Leia really wanted the baby, so she


    held Bianca''s hand and said, "Please talk to your father, Bea."


    Bianca''s heart wrenched when she saw Queenie''s tear-streaked face.


    Queenie seemed a lot older than before. Perhaps she had been excessively worried over Leia. If Jack


    insisted on aborting the baby, Queenie''s past traumas might return.


    Even though Bianca was reunited with her birth parents, Queenie had always felt that she was


    indebted to her, and she was always depressed about it.


    Bianca knew what to say to cause the least damage to Queenie.


    "I know what you are thinking, Dad. You feel that Brody is not a good match for Leia, so you want to


    abort the baby and cut all ties with the Hilton family, and Leia can have a fresh start. However, the


    abortion will have long sting effects. It''ll be very damaging to her body, not to mention that it will be a


    psychological obstacle," she spoke gently.


    Jack was not too perturbed when he heard that the abortion would be damaging to her body. "She''s still


    young, and the damage can be reversed. I can hire a midwife and a nurse to take care of her. The baby


    cannot live!"


    Queenie wiped her tears and said, "Don''t be muddled, Jack. You should know how agonizing it was


    when we lost Bea. How could you let Leia suffer the same agony?"