The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife
Chapter 459 The Pain In That Instant

He hastily said, "Chessie, you should be in bed. You're sick."

"There is no need to stay in bed anymore! Mommy is not here!" Chesney complained in a hushed tone. "Daddy, I have sacrificed a lot for you this time."

"What have you sacrificed? What are you talking about, Chessie?" Julian said as he kept giving her pointed looks.

However, Chesney failed to get the signal. She stared at Julian and said, "Daddy, are you turning against me? If it had not been for you, I wouldn't have needed to lie to mommy by pretending to be sick." "Chessie, stop talking nonsense!" Julian said sternly.

"Nonsense?" Just as Chesney was about to reason with Julian, a harsh and cold voice rang out.

"Pretending to be sick? Lie to mommy?"

The voice sounded very familiar, and Chesney froze.

Slowly, ever so slowly, she turned around and looked at Susan with a smile that was even uglier than when she had been crying. "M... Mommy?"

Susan looked at Chesney expressionlessly.

"Mommy, I suddenly feel very dizzy. If I said something wrong, you must not believe me," Chesney said as she moved her hand over her forehead.

"Yeah, she is just talking nonsense," Julian hastily added.

Susan suddenly smiled. "You two are pretty united. You've been working together to make fun of me. Do you think it is fun? Do you think it is funny to see me worry about you?"

Susan's tone was calm, but Julian and Chesney could sense that she was very angry.

Julian quickly went forward and defended Chesney. "Susie, please don't blame Chessie. She was just helping me."

"Of course it is not Chessie's fault." Susan looked at Julian. "She is just a kid. She doesn't know anything. Julian Shaw, you even used a child to achieve your goal. I'm really disappointed with you." After saying that, Susan turned around and left.

She felt just like a clown. After all, she had been fooled by the father-daughter duo. She had been so worried about Chesney, yet it had all been a lie. She was the only one who had gotten fooled by them. "Mommy, mommy." Chesney became nervous. She dashed forward and wrapped her arms around Susan's leg. "Mommy, please don't be angry. Chessie knows that she was wrong." She looked at Susan with eager eyes.

Susan, who was unable to get angry with her daughter, sighed and said, "Do you know how worried mommy was when you pretended to be sick?"

"Chessie knows she was wrong," Chesney said, looking at Susan with dewy eyes.

When she thought about Susan hurrying to her side overnight and waking up very early in the morning every day to cook her congee, Chesney could not help but feel guilty. "Since you're not sick, mommy will be leaving now. You can stay here with daddy," Susan said. "Mommy, you don't want Chessie anymore?" Chesney's eyes turned red around the rims.

Susan squatted down and looked into Chesney's eyes. "Mommy will never abandon you, Chessie." No matter how angry she was, she knew that was something that she should not say to the kid.

Chesney felt a little relieved. Then, she looked at Susan with puppy eyes and said again, "Mommy, Chessie really didn't mean to lie to you... Chessie just doesn't want mommy and daddy to separate." 'Chessie, even though mommy and daddy are not together anymore, you are still our daughter. This is a fact that will never change," Susan said as she wiped the tears off Chesney's eyes.

"It will be different," Chesney said with a pout. "Although you didn't say so, mommy, Chessie knows you want to divorce daddy. Don't you? Rennie's daddy and mommy got a divorce as well. Then, Rennie's daddy and mommy had a new family and they don't want Rennie anymore. Rennie used to be very happy, but she now cries every day. A kid without a daddy and mommy is too pitiful."

As Chesney was talking, tears were flowing down her cheeks.

Her falling tears were dripping on Susan's heart, and her heart began to waver.

She had been doing her best to minimize the damage of the divorce on Chesney.

Chesney looked like she was normal on the surface, but she was actually very afraid deep down.

"Mommy, Chessie will listen to everything you say in the future. She will not make you angry anymore, so can you please not get a divorce?" Chesney looked at Susan with teary eyes. Susan relapsed into silence, as she did not know what to say.

Julian took a deep breath, walked up to them, and wiped the tears off Chesney's face. "It's all daddy's fault, Chessie. I should not have involved you in the issues between daddy and mommy. Don't worry, n o matter what happens in the end, daddy and mommy will always love you."

"Is that true? Can you promise Chessie?" Chesney looked at them with her dewy eyes.

"Yes, daddy promises," Julian assured her firmly.

Chesney turned to look at Susan.

Susan nodded in assent as well.

It was only then that a faint smile appeared on Chesney's face. "Mommy, can you stay here and keep Chessie company with daddy for another night? Tomorrow, Chessie will go back to grandma's house with mommy."

Susan did not dare say no to her daughter. Therefore, she could only nod.

Chesney went to bed very early at night.

There were a lot of thoughts in Susan's mind right now. She stood on the balcony and allowed the wind to caress her face.

Suddenly, a jacket was draped over her shoulders. She did not have to turn her head, as she already knew who had come.

After all, she was so familiar with him that she could distinguish him from other people through his breathing rhythm, his footfalls, and his smell.

Julian stood beside Susan and said in a hushed voice, "Susie, it was my fault this time. Don't blame Chessie."

Susan shook her head. "It was me who failed to give Chessie enough security."

The night wind was strong, and Susan shuddered as she was talking. Julian wanted to pull her into his arms, but he was aware of their relationship right now, so he forced the urge down to his stomach pit. There was complete silence for a few minutes. Then, Julian took a deep breath and said calmly, "I've thought about it, Susie. The person you are angry with is not my mother. It is me, right?" Susan turned her eyes toward the horizon but did not say anything.

"It's my fault for not handling this incident properly. I shouldn't have taken your patience and kindness for granted. I'm the one who caused you and Chessie all this pain," Julian said as he looked intently at Susan. "Susie, please tell me what you want me to do to make it up to you."

As she listened to Julian's deep voice, confusion glazed over Susan's eyes. "I don't know."

She really did not know.

She could understand Julian's predicament and knew he had already done his best.

Even though she understood Julian's situation, every time she saw him, the memory of the day he had said without any hesitation that he wanted to divorce her would always surface in her mind. The pain that had shot through her in that instant was something she could never forget in her life.