Chapter 280 Can''t Keep the Baby
ra cried herself into sleep. The next morning, she found herself lying neatly in her bed, thinking
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Horace should havee in to tuck her in.
But she didn''t see him, which was good, because she didn''t want to face him.
After freshening up, ra went downstairs for breakfast. She had expected Horace to be out, but
instead, he was seen sitting at the table.
ra stood there for a while, wondering if she should turn around or just go down for breakfast.
"Morning, ra," said Horace, with a unnatural look on his face when he found her, "Come down and
eat some breakfast."
Since Horace had invited her, ra had no choice but to walk toward the table. Instead of sitting next
to or across him as usual, she chose the seat farthest away from Horace''s.
Horace knew that ra was mad at him. He had found ra already asleep when he hade into
the bedroomst night. After adjusting her position and tucking her in, he meant to lie beside her, but at
the thought of the quarrel they had had, he turned around and went to sleep in the living room.
Sleepless all night, Horace had spent the entire night trying to figure out ways to persuade ra but to
no avail.
If ra kept thinking she was pregnant with their baby, then how should he talk her into aborting the
baby? For the first time in his life, Horace was at his wits'' end.
After hesitating for a while, Horace looked at ra, who buried her face in the breakfast, and said,
"ra, about what we have discussedst night, I..."
Hearing Horace bring the matter up again, ra held the chopsticks in such a firm grip that her fingers
turned bloodless. Was he set on getting rid of the baby?
After a pause, Horace continued to say, "ra, just do what I say, and stop being so willful, will you?
We can''t have this baby."
"I am willful?!" Unable to repress her anger any more, ra blew her stacks, "Horace, this is our baby,
even if it isn''t, it''s a life, how can you be cruel enough to kill it? Now you think I am willful!"
Horace''s mild countenance suddenly cooled down hearing what ra had said, "So you mean, even if
it isn''t our baby, you are going to give birth to it anyway."
"What do you mean?" ra was stumped by his words. "Why isn''t is our baby? What on earth are you
getting at?"
Horace then turned silent, shutting his mouth, without saying another word, letting off an icy aura from
head to toe.
ra thought Horace said that out of anger, so she didn''t think further. "Horace, I''m telling you, this is
my baby, and I''m not letting anyone hurt it."
Horace didn''t say another word to her, leaving the dining room shrouded in an indescribable silence. A
baleful undertow flowing between the two, neither of whom was ready to give in.
"You are getting an abortion." With that Horace got up and left the dining room after a while. He then
took up his briefcase and walked toward the door.
It would have been pointless to continue with the fight, and it wasn''t likely that ra would listen to him
and go get an abortion.
So he decided to give her some space to calm down and figure out the matter.
"Bang!" With a teary face, ra threw her dish hard on the floor.
Thinking about thest word he had said, ra felt a chill of distress. In order to cleared the obstacle
between him and Laura, he had gone so far to be so cruel to her?
After letting off her steam, ra sat down to calm herself down.
If Horace insisted on aborting the baby, then could she bear the baby smoothly?
ra felt panicked as she thought about Horace''s power and how he had punished Ashlee, afraid that
it would never happen. She would have to think of a way to banish his idea.
ra racked her brains, trying to figure out someone who would be able to help her. Oh, right, Russell!
ra finally knew whom to turn to.
Russell had been nagging about wanting a great-grandchild, so he would definitely disagree with the
abortion.
ra atst saw a silver lining of hope as she was thinking of that. Leaving the broken dish on the
floor, she picked up her purse and went out of the house.
When she arrived at the Kirnd mansion, Russell was seen taking a walk in the garden after
breakfast.
"ra, it''s been so long since you came to see mest time." Russell gave a heartyugh as she saw
ra.
The old man turned to her with a distressed look in his eyes as he thought of what had happened
before. The Kirnds owed her too much.
"Russell," ra soon came forward, seized him by his sleeve and sobbed. "I need to talk to you."
Russell took on a serious look as he saw her agitated face. "All right, let''s go inside."
"OK." ra followed him into his study.
"ra, what happened?" Russell said to ra after closing the door.
"I''m pregnant, but..." ra said, weeping, "But Horace...he doesn''t want the baby."
"You are pregnant!" Russell got nervous as he heard the news.
"Yes." ra nodded, crying, without noticing the look on his face. "Russell, could you please talk to
Horace about it? I want to keep the baby."
"How long have you been pregnant?" Russell was anxious to ask her the question he cared about the
most, disregarding what she had said.
ra felt kind of weird as she heard his question. Why did they ask the same question as soon as they
were told about her pregnancy?
But without thinking further, she sobbed and said, "The doctor said it has been a month."
A month! Russell''s face darkened as he heard the answer. Wasn''t that exactly how long since she had
been kidnapped? Then had the baby been conceived then?
No wonder Horace didn''t want the baby. What a strange twist of fate. And what a creepy coincidence
for her to get pregnant at the same time.
ra found Russell''s weird look on his face very familiar.
Horace had the same look on his face the day before, when she had told him that she was pregnant.
ra had a foreboding that he was going to say the same thing to her.
"ra, we can''t have this baby," Russell said with a troubled face, trying to persuade her into giving up
on the baby, though it was a little cruel to her, "Just listen to Horace and get an abortion."