Chapter 31 Whose Child?
“Theodore Heimann, don’t you think your current behavior is getting a bit
unreasonable?” Cecilia showed some displeasure as she took a step back. Theo’s
persistence exceeded her imagination.
“Ceci, give me a chance, okay? Give me a chance to start over with us. Don’t worry, if it
doesn’t work out, I’ll leave on my own.” Theo held onto the last shred of rationality. He was
willing to give everything to obtain Cecilia’s forgiveness.
“How many times do I have to repeat it for you to understand? Our marriage is already.
in the past tense!” Cecilia felt a bit shattered. In her impression, Theodore was not like this.
The current him had no trace of his CEO demeanor.
What she didn’t know was that this time Theodore truly wanted to start over with her
And every day after she left, he felt guilty to the core
“Ceci, please, I’m begging you We Theo’s words were interrupted by the sudden cry
of a baby. It was only then that he noticed there was a baby in Cecilia’s room.
Cecilia immediately pushed Theo aside and ran towards little Jace. She gently picked
up Jace and patted his back to soothe him to sleep. Apparently, the argument between the
two had been loud enough to wake the baby
“I remember I had signed the divorce agreement before I left” Cecilia still remembered
how her hand trembled when she signed that divorce agreement.
“I tore up that divorce agreement. I love you.” When the divorce agreement was handed to Theodore a few days after Ceci’s ‘death‘, he stared at it in a daze for a long time before tearing it to pieces, carrying his anger and regret.
Theo saw Cecilia tenderly coaxing the sleeping baby in her arms, and he was moved by this gentle scene. He remembered that Cecilia’s doctor informed him that she was already pregnant at that time. But Cecilia herself was unaware of it back then. Now, seeing the child. in Cecilia’s embrace, Theo speculated that it must be their child. Would having a child.
between them ease their relationship?
He took a few steps forward, wanting to hold the baby. Cecilia shook her head at his gesture. “The baby is asleep, and you might wake him up.” She whispered as she carefully placed the sleeping Jace back in the crib.
Cecilia noticed that Theodore hadn’t left yet, so she approached him and said in a low voice, “I will entrust my lawyer to draft a new divorce agreement. Please sign it, so we will have no connection anymore.” She had no intention of starting anew with him.
“Ceci, is the child a boy or a girl?” Theodore sensed her resolute attitude, realizing that he should stop bringing up the idea of getting back together at the moment.
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“A boy.” Cecilia turned her head and looked at the peacefully sleeping Jace. He was all she had now.
Theo nodded, about to say something, but Cecilia interjected, “I think you may have misunderstood. He is not your child.” Cecilia decided it would be better to weave a lie and make him leave. In her eyes, the two of them were absolutely impossible to be together
again,
“What did you say?” Those words hit Theo like a heavy bombshell, leaving him stunned. for a while. “He’s not my child? Then tell me, whose child is he?” Based on Theo’s investigation, Cecilia hadn’t remarried, so what was going on?
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