Back to Love: A New Beginning
Chapter 188

Chapter 188:.

My aunt was a person who paid special attention to saving her face. Now that she had lost face, she decided to get straight to the point.

“Eveline, the truth is that we’ve run into some problems. You see, we can only stay in such a small house. We have to spend a considerable amount of money on the baby’s diapers and powdered milk every month. Although your cousin has a secure job as a labor contractor, he is always in a precarious position due to the nature of this work. If he does not get paid for the project on time, he cannot pay the workers’ wages. If you can’t pay the wages, the workers will go on strike and you won’t be able to finish the job on time. You lead a good life and your husband is very rich. For my sake, can’t you lend some money to your cousin?”. I couldn’t believe he had the patience to listen to her.

“I have no reason to use Derek’s money, let alone use his money to sponsor members of my father’s family. I too have lived a hard life in my past. In comparison, your situation is not so miserable. It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or not, you have to lead your own life. Should poor people give up raising their children? You must know the saying, ‘Adversity makes a man wise.’ It is not bad for my nephew to grow up in this kind of environment.” After saying that, I left the play without looking at them again.

Surely, I thought they must have looked at me in blind rage as I walked away. In fact, I already knew that my aunt had ulterior motives from the moment she had invited me to visit them.

What I didn’t expect, however, was for them to be so brazen. Of all the members of my aunt’s family, the only family member I felt sorry for was my cousin’s wife. She was quite shy and no one would listen to her at home.

So, while the others acted to trick me, I slyly passed her five hundred dollars and asked her to buy fresh, healthy food.

When I returned home, I did not mention at all what had happened at the play. I was overwhelmed by the shame and embarrassment of my openly shameless relatives. Now that Aaron had moved out, it was just Derek and I living at home.

When Derek came home, I had just finished preparing dinner. After dinner, I busied myself preparing medicine in the kitchen. According to the doctor’s instructions, these medicines were prescribed to treat infertility. From my place in the kitchen, I could hear Derek’s phone ringing from time to time.

Since I had seen the message I had received from the person saved as Sybil, I had become very sensitive to his phone alerts. I came out of the kitchen with the medicine.

Derek was leaning on the couch, looking at his phone while texting.

Was he texting Sybil? What were they talking about? Were they talking about the big surprise she had mentioned? But Sybil was dead. So who was it that sent her the message? These questions flooded my mind.

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As I held the bowl, I was completely obsessed with her phone message alerts. Out of sheer insatiable curiosity, I approached him with the bowl still in my hand.

I took gentle, soft steps so he wouldn’t notice my presence. From where I stood behind the couch, I suddenly poked my head out and asked him, “What are you looking at?”

He didn’t rush to hide his phone from my view and wasn’t the least bit startled. I could also see what was on his phone screen from my vantage point.

The person who had contacted him was the company’s legal counsel, who wanted to discuss the company’s current situation.

Secretly, I sighed with great relief. The smell of the medicine made him turn around. “What is that medicine for?”

I walked over to him and placed the bowl of medicine on the coffee table. I told him that I had undergone another gynecological exam.

Janie’s case had hit me hard. “Why is it so easy for others to get pregnant? There are people who get pregnant after making love only once! The doctor has advised me that, if I take this medication, my chances of getting pregnant may increase slightly.”

“Really?” Derek looked at me and asked with a smile. “Will you be as fierce as a tiger after consuming the medication? I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to take it.”

I blushed and punched him, pretending to be annoyed with his comment. He put the phone down and leaned over to shamelessly hug me. “I’ll ask the doctor to prescribe me some medicine tomorrow, otherwise you’ll wear me out.”

Feeling embarrassed, I hit him and said, “You scoundrel.”

He pressed me down on the couch and rubbed against me with a playful smile.

“Come on. Let’s go practice. Only if we practice beforehand can we enjoy the real romantic moments with ease and satisfaction.”

The humor came easily to him. Whenever she flirted with me, she always managed to surprise me. However, the romantic mood was interrupted by a phone call from Louise.

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