Outside the banquet hall, Lucienne hurriedly caught up with me, tightly grasped my wrist, and said anxiously, "Lucas, what do you want to do?" She continued, "Today is our engagement ceremony, and the guests are all here. You just walked away and left me here alone. What's going on?"
I said with a trembling voice: "The child just now is yours and Brandon 's, right?" Her eyes flickered and she denied in a low voice: "No... no." However, I know her character very well. We have been together for eight years and I know her too well. Moreover, I don't believe that such a young child would call Lucienne mom for no reason!
At this time, Brandon ran out of the banquet hall holding the little boy. The little boy kept crying and shouting in the direction of Lucienne : "Mom, mom" Brandon first looked at me jokingly, and then said to Lucienne anxiously : " Lucienne , our son keeps saying that he wants to find his mother, come and see!"
Seeing this scene, I was struck by lightning and my whole body was shaking. "You...what else do you have to say!" I angrily broke free from her hand.
Seeing that the truth was revealed, she simply confessed: "Yes, the child is indeed mine. Can we talk about this later? Let's go back to the banquet hall first, and you can help me explain to the guests present that you know and accept that I have a son. Otherwise, everyone will definitely poke my spine! In this way, I will let the child call you dad in the future, this will be okay!"
I was speechless, so I stopped a taxi and got in the car resolutely despite Lucienne 's obstruction. Looking in the rearview mirror, I saw her holding the child in Brandon 's arms, gently patting the child's back, and soothing the child's emotions.
After returning home, I rushed into the bathroom with red eyes. The person in the mirror had long lost the spirited look at the beginning of the party, and was replaced by a face full of collapse and despair. I kept washing my cheeks with cold water, trying to make myself sober, but my tears kept falling like beads with broken strings. That was the woman I had loved for eight years!
Perhaps I was tired of crying, and I fell asleep leaning against the toilet without realizing it. The sound of a door opening woke me up, and I looked towards the door, only to see Lucienne coming back. When she saw my miserable state, she said with disgust: "You look like you are dying!" She continued, "You are too petty today, aren't you? Just because of such a small matter, you lost your temper and walked away? In such a formal occasion as the engagement party, you left me alone, what on earth does that mean? I really lost face today!"
Hearing this, my blood boiled in my heart. She cheated on me and gave birth to another man's child, but she said it was a small matter! She even bit back and said that she lost face, and all the guests present knew that I was a living cuckold!
I said coldly: "Let's put all that aside and talk about the child!" She sat on the sofa and replied expressionlessly: "Yes, I was pregnant when you went abroad for further studies three years ago. The child is Brandon 's. It's not my fault. I was too lonely at home at the time , so I called Brandon to come and accompany me. We drank a little more that day, so we had this child."
" Did you call him to come?" I was furious, "Do you know that you have a fiancé? Why did you bring another man home? And you even slept together!" She frowned and said unhappily: "What are you yelling about! Don't say it so harshly! You dare to yell at me just because of this little thing, right?"
I was so angry that my chest ached and I remained silent. When she saw that I was silent, she felt that her momentum overshadowed me, and she lowered her voice by two decibels and said, "I wanted to abort the child afterwards, but Brandon said his wife was infertile. He is 30 years old this year, and his greatest wish is to have a child of his own. I was obviously trying to help others, but look at how narrow-minded you are today! You just walked out of the engagement party without saying anything, and let the guests poke my spine! How can you say you are a man!"
" I'm narrow-minded?" I looked at her in disbelief, "I only went abroad to study for a year, and you cheated on me and gave birth to a child with another man. Now you still say that I'm narrow-minded?" Looking at the woman in front of me who I once regarded as a treasure, she is now so strange! I staggered back two steps, and said disheartenedly: "Lucienne, let's break up!"
She said coldly, "Okay, let's break up, don't regret it!" After that, she went back to the bedroom to pack up her things. "Look at the shabby house you bought, it's only 100 square meters, I'm honoring you by living here with you!" She continued, "Brandon just divorced his wife, I'm going to move to Brandon's big villa. Our family of three together is much better than you being alone!" She dragged the suitcase and slammed the door.
