Chapter 173


    Meredith slept soundly and did not wake up. Parker smiled when he saw her sleeping soundly, thinking


    maybe all pregnant women did so.


    However, even if she was pregnant, he did not see any flesh on her body but only her abdomen bulged


    up, so her body looked a little uncoordinated.


    Maybe he should find a nutritionist or something to help her get better and stop being so weak.


    Thinking about it, Parker had a gentle smile on his face and was about to send Meredith upstairs when


    suddenly, a car horn sounded not far away.


    "Beep!"


    The voice was very harsh. No matter how soundly Meredith slept, she was awakened. When she


    opened her eyes, she realized that she was hugged by Parker. She was shocked. "Let me down!"


    Meredith subconsciously pushed Parker''s chest, thinking why he suddenly hugged her like this and if


    anyone saw him...


    When Parker saw that she was very resistant, he felt helpless. Unwillingly, he let her down as she


    required. However, Meredith almost fell down. She just now sat and fell asleep, so her legs were curled


    up all the time and now they felt a little numb now.


    Seeing that Meredith couldn''t stand still, Parker quickly held her up to prevent her from falling. At the


    same time, he shook his head helplessly. "Look, I just want to send you back. I saw you sleeping so


    soundly that I didn''t want to disturb you."


    "I''m fine. I''ll just stand there for a while."


    Meredith shook her head. No matter what, she could not act so intimately with him. That was


    inappropriate.


    However, now that she could not stand still, she could only grab Parker''s shoulder and wait for the


    unbearable numbness on her legs to disappear.


    Derek in the car looked at their intimate interaction and smiled instead of being angry, but the joy was


    not shown in his eyes. His usually deep eyes seemed to have formed a thickyer of frost at this


    moment, which made people feel chilly.


    He thought, "These two people really felt that no one had noticed them, so they were so unscrupulous


    to this extent?


    Hugging wasn''t enough just now, but now they have to hold hands. They are so intimate."


    Thinking about it, he smiled coldly and took out his phone to call Meredith.


    Meredith felt morefortable on her legs and was about to ask Parker to let her go. Her phone rang


    and she picked it up. When she saw that it was Derek calling in, her expression became more


    unnatural.


    After thinking for a second, she hung up.


    Parker was there. Meredith didn''t want him to know too much about her and Derek. After all, it was an


    unspeakable secret.


    What''s more... She still remembered that photo. Since he had already gone back to connect with


    Chloe, and now he was looking for her. What was the point?


    Derek looked at her as she hung up without thinking, and the smile on his lips was even more aloof.


    Sure enough, there was a man behind her so she was brave enough to hang up without answering his


    phone?


    His fingers moved slightly, and her phone immediately rang again.


    Meredith saw that it was still him. Perhaps, if she didn''t answer, Derek would keep calling.


    "What''s the matter? Who is calling you? Is someone bothering you?"


    Seeing that Meredith was still not answering the phone, Parker looked at her in surprise. "How about I


    answer it for you?"


    Meredith shook her head. It was better not to involve him in this matter. She took two steps back and


    answered the phone. "Hello? What''s the matter?"


    It was the first time Derek had contacted her since thest time the two of them broke up and he


    mmed the door and left.


    "Where are you now?"


    The man''s voice was indifferent, and Meredith recognized it. She thought he had lost patience with her


    maybe because he now had Chloe to be with him.


    It was really ironic.


    "At the doorstep of my house." Meredith''s tone was also indifferent. "What''s the matter?"


    Since Derek already had a choice, there was no need for her to be so intimate with him and humiliate


    herself.


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    "Oh? With whom? Are you alone?"


    Derek clenched the steering wheel in his hand and looked at the two figures approaching.


    Meredith frowned as she thought of the intimacy between him and Chloe. Her heart was stifled and she


    felt terrible. "What does it have to do with you?"


    Thispletely ignited Derek''s anger. Without thinking about it, he got out of the car, mmed the


    door, and strode over. "Nothing to do with me? Why, if I hadn''t honked just now, would you have gone


    upstairs and made out with each other? Meredith, you''re really shameless."


    Derek looked at Meredith indifferently, with suppressed anger in his tone.


    Parker hugging her just now was too intimate as if they were just a pair of intimate lovers. Derek


    thought, indeed, they were a pair of adulterers who had given birth to children. They were not even


    hiding anything in public. Were they so confident that they wouldn''t be discovered?


    "Mr. Xavier, you don''t think much of me when you talk like that, do you?"


    Parker heard Derek''s sarcastic words and slowly walked over to protect Meredith behind him. "I just


    didn''t want to wake her up, so I took her out of the car. Why did Mr. Xavier think us to be so immoral?"


    Derek looked at Parker''s movements. He actually protected Meredith behind him in the presence of


    Derek. Derek thought, what right did he have to do that?


    "Parker, get out of the way. I''m talking to her. It''s none of your business."


    Derek looked at Parker with disdain and hatred.


    He was just an illegitimate child of a mistress and he dared to use this method to defeat him?


    He was so naive.


    "No, protecting a woman, especially a pregnant woman, is what a normal man should do. I can''t watch


    you yelling at her."


    When Derek heard this, his anger waspletely ignited.


    Protecting a pregnant woman? Protecting a woman?


    He was clearly protecting the damn baby of Meredith and he was the baby''s damn father!


    "What nonsense... Why, is this baby yours? That''s why you are standing in front of her like this?"


    "Derek, don''t push your luck." Meredith, who had been protected behind Parker, could not help but


    stand up when she heard this. Derek was actually the father of the baby, and he did not believe it. Now


    he had to pin the me on another man and regarded her to be a slut!


    "What, was your secret exposed? Are you feeling guilty?"


    Meredith''s anger was evident and Derek could feel it. In his eyes, their reaction was only the


    humiliation of their secret being exposed, and when he thought of what Violet had said, he sneered in


    his heart.


    "Parker, you are such a coward. You allow a woman to seduce other men when she is pregnant with


    your baby and even asks the baby to recognize another man as its father. You are such a coward."


    Parker didn''t expect that Derek didn''t know that he was the child''s father, and he was even so sure that


    the child''s father was someone else.


    Although he did not know what the misunderstanding between them was, he did not want to exin it


    out of selfish motives.