My Husband's Announcement

I pursed my lips and closed my eyes.

"I understand."

Jay hadn’t expected me to be so calm. He knelt on my bed, his hands gripping mine tightly, pressing them against his heart.

"Believe me, no matter what happens between us, I will always stay by your side. We will only adopt one child, and in the future, everything I have will be given to them. After that, I will accompany you around the world, okay?"

Beneath my hands was supposed to be his heart.

I truly wanted to see if he really had a heart.

His phone rang twice. Jay’s expression changed slightly as he carefully watched me.

"Mandy, it's a banquet hosted by one of our business partners. This time, both husband and wife are required to attend, so I... "

"I’m fine. Since our marriage is a secret and no one knows about our relationship, you can just bring another date."

Originally, he had promised to make our relationship public at this event.

But now, it no longer mattered.

Jay let out a sigh of relief, though he still didn’t seem to understand why I had agreed so easily.

"Mandy, this is only temporary. Once you recover..."

Just then, a friend sent me a document for an electronic signature.

Jay barely read the beginning before he reached out in an attempt to take my phone.

"A transfer contract? What are you selling, Mandy?"

Instinctively, I turned off the screen and pretended to be indifferent. "It’s just a small company that’s been in a deficit. You said yourself that I need to focus on my recovery."

A trace of guilt flashed across Jay’s face. He didn’t press the matter and instead let out a sigh.

"I was just too worried about you. From now on, you can stay home and be Mrs. Lawson. I will take care of you for the rest of your life."

Seizing the moment, I asked to be discharged from the hospital, but Jay immediately refused.

"Don’t be ridiculous! You need proper rest and recovery!"

But I forced my eyes to redden, gazing at him with a fragile, broken expression.

"But I don’t want to stay here anymore. Every time I open my eyes, I think of the child who never got to be born. Jay, I want to go home."

A flicker of guilt flashed in Jay’s eyes. After I kept bringing up the child, he finally agreed reluctantly.

Even so, before I was discharged, he still followed through with his original plan—bringing the child to me.

"Mandy, look! We found this little baby abandoned outside the hospital room. Maybe… maybe it’s fate, tying him to us!"

His face was filled with feigned surprise, but the way he held the baby was far too practiced.

It was obvious he had rehearsed many times before.

He called it an abandoned baby, yet the child was dressed in designer clothing and wrapped in expensive blankets.

I had also wanted to give my child the best of everything, so I recognized these brands immediately.

Perhaps convinced that I would accept the child, Jay didn’t bother hiding the tenderness on his face anymore.

But I, Mandy White, was not someone who turned a blind eye to deceit.

Not only would I refuse to accept this child— I would also abandon Jay.