174 174. Happiness for Everyone


    “Honey, where are you going?” asked Samuel as ra got out of bed, away from his embrace. “It’s still too early to wake up.”


    ra chuckled. “I have to go to the hospital, Sam.”


    “Lea?”


    ra nodded and smiled. “I want to convince her to give birth to her child as soon as possible.”


    “Are you sure you can?”


    ra was silent for a moment. After she got Samuel’s love, she felt alive again. When she thinks about Lea, she felt that everyone deserved happiness, regardless of any sins they hadmitted in the past. Lea was no exception.


    “Lea is an educated person. I will show her scientifically. I hope she will understand,” ra replied again.


    Samuel smiled lightly. He felt that ra’s zest for life had returned. “Give me a kiss and I’ll let you go,” Samuel said with a yful look, pouting his lips.


    ra naturallyughed at Samuel’s childish behavior. She didn’t reward him with a kiss but tickled Samuel until he screamed for mercy.


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    “Hey, you make me want to do it again, baby!” shouted Samuel, pulling ra’s body back into bed.


    “What are you doing, Sam?” ra yelled with wide eyes when Samuel covered her naked body with his.


    “Of course, I will teach you a lesson!” replied Samuel, sneering cunningly.


    That morning, another session urred before ra could finally go to the hospital. Of course, she did it with difficulty because her energy was barely drained.


    ***


    At the hospital, afterpleting her summary, ra rushed to Lea’s room. However, she ran into Dave in front of Lea’s room.


    “What is it?” ra asked, finding Dave’s gloomy face unfriendly.


    The man just shook his head in response. He was about to leave ra because his feelings of awkwardness and heartache for that woman were still there, even though they had both decided to end the rtionship on good terms.


    ra didn’t give up. She knew how he put on a face when he was in trouble.


    “Tell me,” ra said forcefully. She shook Dave’s shoulder so he would tell her what had happened.


    Even Dave couldn’t go against ra’s wishes. He said softly, “My dad … he didn’t want his grandson to be born out of wedlock. He … asked me to marry Lea.”


    ra was stunned for a moment. No wonder Dave was reluctant to tell her. As it turned out, what happened was not pleasant to hear or tell.


    “I think that’s for the best,” ra said. “Did Lea agree with the n?”


    ra’s question just floated in the air. She knew Dave was in trouble. It must have been because Lea didn’t want to cooperate.


    Dave looked down, trying to see something other than ra’s face. However, he saw a diamond ring pinned on ra’s ring finger. The ring that wasn’t from him.


    “Congrattions,” whispered Dave in endless anxiety. It was unpleasant to know that ra hadpletely ready for a new rtionship with someone else.


    “For what?” asked ra with a pounding chest. She then realized that she was wearing a ring from Samuel.


    Dave patted ra on the shoulder and said, “Wishing you all the best of happiness.” He forced a smile, but his lips trembled as result. There was no smile to be seen.


    That’s all Dave said. He then left ra with a tight chest, trying to convince himself that everything about ra was no longer his business. He had to focus on Lea and their child.


    ra realized what Dave was doing. She nced at the ring in her hand. What was she going to say? Sooner orter, Dave would find out about her rtionship with Samuel.


    The doctor then entered Lea’s room and greeted the woman with a light feeling. “Good afternoon, mom! How are you today?”


    Lea was stunned to find ra’s attitude changed so drastically. Lea felt both scorned and confused by such a friendly gesture. A few days ago, didn’t ra still look gloomy and cold?


    “You look so cheerful, doctor,”mented Lea hoarsely.


    ra smiled kindly. “I asked, how are you?”


    “I asked why you canceled the wedding which was only a few days away. Why did you do that to Dave, ra? He loves you so—”


    When Lea’s eyes looked at the diamond ring on ra’s left ring finger, that’s when she realized that as Dave said, ra was serious about ending their rtionship. Not only because of the presence of the baby in her womb but also because there was another man.


    Unknowingly, Lea’s tears fell. “Why? Why does it have to be like this?”


    Lea burst into tears, covering her face with her hands. ra, who couldn’t stand Lea’s crying, approached her patient and hugged her tightly.


    “Lea, please understand … Dave and I are done. Please don’t prolong it and regret it,” whispered ra in a hoarse voice, holding back the pain in her chest that still appeared briefly.


    Lea shook her head, unable to believe that she was destroying people’s rtionships. She didn’t think she would fail to get ra and Dave back together.


    “Lea, realize that there are things we cannot change in this world. I heard that you also ended your rtionship with your former boyfriend because he married another woman, right? Even if you and he have been in a rtionship for a long time,” ra said without separating herself from Lea. “Have you ever thought that fate ys with us? Our soul matees toote, destroying the n we have built for a long time.”


    ra separated from Lea, then continued to say, “The paths will be different, but everyone deserves to be happy with the person who is meant for them. So do you.”


    Lea was still sobbing, trying to stop her crying.


    “Now try to think for you and your baby’s happiness,” whispered ra. She then took out her tablet to report on the sess of the six-month-old baby’s birth and the facilities that the hospital had. “Your baby deserves aplete family. Having a father and mother.”


    Lea stared at ra with teary eyes.


    “Don’t you want to see your child grow up, walk and run while calling you mommy?” ra asked again, making Lea’s sobs deepen.


    Lea could only nod in response. She hugged ra tightly, God knows how long she did it. She didn’t know whether to thank or apologize to ra either. She just realized that what ra said was her dream.