Chapter 18 Regretting It


    Nathaniel listened silently, his eyes darkening, yet he didn’t refute.


    It was precisely because of his indulgence that his friend Zachary, his mother Elena, his assistant Mason, and even the servants at Rainsworth Manor never treated Cecilia as a person..


    Zachary received a call and hurriedly left.


    After he was gone, Nathaniel instinctively picked up his phone but saw no missed calls from Cecilia.


    He dialed her number, but the same cold automated voice answered, “Sorry, the number you are calling is temporarily unavable. Please try againter…”


    Frustrated, he tossed his phone aside.


    Nathaniel stood up and walked over to the floor–to–ceiling window, lighting a cigarette,


    Cecilia’s words from the early hours of the morning still echoed in his ears. She had said she regretted it.


    Nathaniel felt an inexplicable bitterness in his throat. He coughed heavily, and suddenly, he heard a woman’s voice behind him. “Nathaniel, you should cut down on smoking. It’s bad for your health.”


    Nathaniel’s heart tightened, and he instinctively thought that Cecilia had returned.


    When he turned around, it was Ste, dressed like a perfect housewife.


    A flicker of light passed through Nathaniel’s deep eyes as he asked indifferently. “Why are your here?”


    Ste looked at him with a gentle expression.


    “Mdm. Elena asked me toe. She knows about Cecilia finding someone new so soon and wants you to not dwell on it.”


    She was talking about Elena, Nathaniel’s mother.


    Four years ago, Elena and Zachary were in the same car when they were targeted by a rival.pany.


    Elena lost a lot of blood, and at that time, the hospital had a shortage of type O blood. Cecilia also happened to be type O.


    After making sure Zachary was fine, Cecilia donated her blood.


    However, after the transfusion, she fainted from exhaustion.


    Back then, because the Smith family was their benefactor, Ste did everything to ingratiate herself with Cecilia.


    When she heard that Cecilia was in the hospital, she rushed over without hesitation to take care of her, and it was through this that she learned Cecilia had saved someone’s life.


    However, no one knew that during Cecilia’s stay in the hospital, Ste “identally” took credit for being the one who saved Nathaniel’s mother.


    Ste had assumed that with such a life–saving debt, Nathaniel would definitely marry her.


    To her surprise, Elena personally proposed an arranged marriage with Cecilia’s family for the sake of her son’s career and power even though Cecilia had a hearing impairment!!


    And now, Nathaniel refused to have any connection with Cecilia. They had been married for three years, and there was still no child.


    Elena had begun to lower her standards and even supported Ste and Nathaniel being together. telling her that as long as they had a child, she could marry into the Rainsworth family.


    Nathaniel looked at Ste and asked, “Who is her new lover?”


    On the phone, Cecilia had said she wouldn’t marry someone else for three hundred million.


    Nathaniel couldn’t believe that all her feelings for him over the years had been an act!


    Ste hesitated.


    “I don’t know either”


    If she told Nathaniel that Cecilia was being forced to marry an old man, he would surely show sympathy.


    “Since you don’t know, don’t mention it again.”


    Ste froze for a moment, then nodded.


    That day. Nathaniel remained distracted.


    Late at night, in the intensive care unit of Tud Hospital, Ceciliay wearing a respirator, struggling to breathe.


    She hadn’t died. Calvin had gotten her to the hospital just in time, pulling her back from the brink of death


    She nced at Martha, who was crying beside her. She mustered all her strength tofort her.


    “I’m… not in pain, don’t cry


    She had always been a timid, weak person–even choosing to die by sleeping pills.


    Looking at Martha, whose hair had turned white overnight, Cecilia felt even sadder and deeply


    Martha choked on her sobs, gripping Cecilia’s hand tightly. “Ceci, listen to me. Let’s focus on getting better, then live a good life, okay?”


    Cecilia couldn’t make any promises.


    Meanwhile, outside in the hospital corridor.


    “Mr. Reese, after the surgery, we ran more tests and found that she is already around two weeks pregnant.”RêAdt??St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only