The Goodbye You Asked For

Kevin’s shoulders sank and he seemed to be relieved. He took my hand and led me to the sofa.

“It’s okay. I’ve done my homework. It’s normal for pregnant women to have unstable emotions due to the influence of progesterone levels. Don’t worry. Okay, it’s good to go see your brother. You two haven’t seen each other for a long time. My little crybaby, you’re going to be a mother and you still miss your brother. You go first. I’ll come to you after I finish my work these days. I’ll have fun with you for a while.”

Listening to Kevin’s concerned words, my heart sank again and again.

Done his homework, he said?

But I didn’t want to worry about these things anymore. I didn’t know if it was because I just had surgery. My lower abdomen was tight and now I just wanted to rest.

“Kevin, I’m tired. I want to rest.”

I seemed to be really tired. I slept until noon. Unexpectedly, Kevin was still at home.

Seeing me wake up, Kevin hugged me in his arms.

“It seems that what others say about pregnant women’s sleepiness is true. Look at my little lazy pig, who has just woken up. Get up and eat something. There is a cocktail party in the afternoon. Let’s go together.”

I calculated the time. The plane sent by my brother to pick me up would arrive in the evening, so there was still time.

In order not to arouse Kevin’s suspicion and to ensure that the plan would not go wrong, I nodded to Kevin.

As soon as we arrived at the banquet hall, we both became the focus of the whole audience, as expected.

“I really envy Mrs. Warner. Look at Mr. Warner. He has been married for so many years and still treats Mrs. Warner like she is fragile.”

“That’s right. Look, he takes Mrs. Warner with him no matter what occasion, for fear that Mrs. Warner will be snatched away by others.”

Kevin accepted everyone’s compliments with a smile on his face and seemed to be very happy with everyone’s words.

In the midst of harmony, a sticky voice broke the situation.

“I heard that Mrs. Warner is pregnant. Why is she still coming to this kind of cocktail party?”

“Is she afraid that she can’t control her man and that Mr. Warner will be snatched away by someone else?”

The person who came was Regina and everyone heard the gunpowder in her words. After all, Regina liked Kevin at the beginning and everyone in the circle knew it.

“What does she mean by this? Mr. Warner can be snatched away by someone else? Who is someone else? She won’t say herself, right?”

“It’s ridiculous. At the beginning, she was shameless and pestered Mr. Warner and Mr. Warner went bankrupt in anger. She actually dared to speak here. Everyone knows that Mr. Warner hates these beautiful women outside the most.”

“Look at Mr. Warner’s face, I am about to mourn for Regina.”

I ignored what others said and I didn’t pay attention to Kevin’s gloomy face. I took a glass of red wine from the tray of the waiter beside me.

“How did Miss Jenkins know that I was pregnant? We shouldn’t have announced this to the public yet, right?”

When I said this, Kevin was stunned and he looked at Regina with eyes that wanted to eat her.

A trace of panic flashed in Regina’s eyes.

“I went to Warner Hospital for a physical examination this morning and I just heard about it. Didn’t you go for a prenatal checkup yesterday…”

Before she finished her words, I suddenly poured all the red wine in my hand on her face.

“Let’s just assume that what you said is true. I am indeed pregnant and can’t drink. Then Miss Jenkins, drink more.”

The red wine splashed all over Regina’s head and face. The bright red wine dripped along her hair and kept flowing down her satin dress.

Compared with me, who was decent and elegant, she looked very embarrassed now.