MTLNOVEL Chapter 724 - 724: I Have Triplets (14)
Chapter 724: Chapter 724: I Have Triplets (14)
Steve Burton didn’t dodge, the tea trickled down his face slowly, staining his handsome pallor with a few tea leaves.
Steve didn’t reach out to wipe it, still sitting upright in his seat, continuing to speak calmly, “Secondly, the triplets that Ruby Gregory gave birth to indeed are my flesh and blood. I asked the doctor; she just gave birth forty days prematurely.”
“Forty days premature…” Madam Burton counted the days with her fingers: “That means she got pregnant last November? That’s shortly after you and Ruby got engaged…”
After speaking, Madam Burton glanced at her husband, Steve’s father.
Steve nodded, “Exactly, that month, Ruby was with me every day, which is why I was so certain that the child in her womb was definitely mine.”
“Then if she was clearly carrying your child, why did she say it was someone else’s?” Madam Burton was thoroughly confused.
Steve’s expression suddenly appeared as if he had encountered a difficult problem, showing a moment of hesitation, as if he had some unspoken secret. He stammered, “This…this is the real reason why I called you all here in the middle of the night. There was once… once…”
“Once what?” Madam Burton grew increasingly anxious with Steve’s evasive speech.
Steve looked at his anxious mother, feeling a secret joy, but his expression became somewhat embarrassed. After his mother repeatedly asked him several times, he feigned helplessness and finally spoke stiffly again: “Didn’t I propose the cancellation of the engagement? Haven’t you always been asking me the reasons? Haven’t I always refrained from answering?”
By now, Steve felt somewhat relieved that he had shouldered all the responsibility to let Ruby seek her own happiness.
He hadn’t anticipated then, that in this moment, it would become an effective starting point to completely convince everyone present: “The reason I didn’t explain was because Ruby disappeared on the day of the engagement, which I found humiliating, so in a fit of rage, I called off the wedding…Actually, she was already pregnant at that time, but I wasn’t aware. Back then, I didn’t really want a child. She wanted one, I had no choice, so I secretly fed her contraceptive pills…Later, when she found out that she was pregnant and went to the hospital for a check-up, she discovered that I had been giving her contraceptive pills and in order to protect the child…well…”
Some things should not be exposed too plainly, as it might come off as insincere. So, when Steve explained the cause and effect, he deliberately showed a vexed expression and closed his mouth.
“So, you’re saying, if it were not for Ruby absconding with the child back then, the child in her womb might have been aborted by you?” Steve’s father fell silent for a while before asking a question.
Steve didn’t make a sound, he just lightly nodded.
“To call you a scoundrel, you truly are one!” Steve’s father directly threw the teacup in his hand at Steve, the teacup brushed past Steve’s ear and directly hit the wall behind him, shattering!
Although Madam Burton felt distressed watching her husband attack Steve twice, she couldn’t help but reprimand Steve: “Steve, how could you do such foolish things? Even if you didn’t want a child, you should not have given Ruby contraceptives. It’s very harmful to women!”