Chapter 9


    Chapter 9 Ashley Is Pregnant


    Ashley was stunned. Then she gawked at the doctor. “I…”


    Seeing her in a daze, the doctor frowned. “We are talking about legal responsibility here. Signing is no


    joke.”


    “Let me. I’m the patient’s wife.” I walked over to the doctor, took the pen, and signed.


    The doctor looked at me and frowned. “Are you sure you’re a family member?”


    I put down the pen, nced at Ashley, and said indifferently, “If lovers can be considered as family


    members, then she is a family, too.”


    With that, I walked over to the side wall and leaned against it. The doctor looked at us with an


    expression that said, “You guys have a messy rtionship.”


    With her head down and her face flushed, Ashley stood in front of the doctor and said, “Doctor, please.


    Please save him.”


    The doctor nodded, said no more, and went into the operating room.


    I stood against the wall for a few minutes, and my legs were sore. So, I looked at Roy and said, “Mr.


    Austen, I have something to do, so I’m leaving. Call me if anything.”


    Seeing that I was about to leave, Roy was surprised. “Mrs. Hinton… You’re leaving now?”


    I pursed my lips and nodded.


    Then I looked at Dale, who was standing aside. “Dale, you may go back, too. He won’t die.”


    Then I walked straight out of the hospital.


    “Tabatha.” Ashley caught up to me downstairs in the hospital.


    She was so obsessed. After a terrible night and a busy morning, I was indeed not in the mood to waste


    my time on her.


    I looked back at her and said calmly, “Yes?”


    “When are you going to divorce Walter?” She looked at me and cut to the chase.


    I froze for a second and wanted to grin. I half-squinted at her. “What the fuck does that have anything to


    do with you?”


    She was calm enough. “As you saw, he was willing to give up his life for me. You don’t love him, and


    vice versa. Why can’t you just let go so that he and I can be together? You don’t deserve to be with him


    because of your sordid past. Leave him. Let me stay with him for the rest of our lives.”


    I was beat, so I didn’t want to continue to talk to her. I took a deep breath and said, “If you want me to


    divorce him, fine. Let hime to me himself.”


    I pinched my brows, feeling tired, and I turned to leave.


    She said, “I’m pregnant. It’s Walter’s. The baby is two months old right now. It happened the time you


    went back to the Conner’s ce.”


    I stood in situ clenching my fists, my head buzzing. Ashley was pregnant?


    It happened two months ago?


    I remembered. It was my birthday that day. In the evening, Walter and I went back to the Conner’s


    ce. He was supposed to stay the night with me, but in the middle of the night, he said he had to go.


    At that time, I thought he was not used to sleeping at the Conner’s ce, so he left. I didn’t realize he


    was going to have sex with Ashley.


    I was such a pathetic woman who got cheated on.


    “Tabatha, you know very well that now that I’m pregnant, no one from the Hinton family will side with


    you anymore. Carley won’t have bastards as the descendants of the Hinton family. Besides, you are


    still not pregnant after being married to Walter for two years. You have no reason to continue to be his


    wife.” Her arguments hit the nail on the head indeed. Carley Minnie, Walter’s grandma, wouldn’t


    tolerate bastards at all, and during those two years, Walter and I had been taking precautions, and we


    had a tacit agreement not to talk about having kids.


    At first, I thought Walter didn’t like kids, so he wasn’t in a hurry to have one. Now it seemed that it was


    my kids that he didn’t want.


    I raised my hand and pinched between my eyes, regaining my sanity. Looking at her face, which was


    slightly red due to her excitement, I paused for a moment, smiled, and said, “Ashley, logically speaking,


    Walter should be the one talking to me about our divorce. Howe it is always you who is so eager


    to urge me to divorce him?”


    I leaned closer to her, smiled, and said slowly, “Is it true that Walter doesn’t want to divorce me at all?


    That leaves you with no choice but toe here and push me. It seems that his so-called love for you


    is nothing.”


    “You…” She pulled a long face. “Tabatha, stop gloating. He doesn’t ask you for a divorce, because he


    is well-educated and doesn’t want to hurt you. He wants you to leave the Hinton’s ce with dignity. Be


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    sensible. How long do you think you can stay with him now that I’m pregnant?”


    “Really?” I was amused. “You said so yourself that he is well-educated. In other words, he won’t push


    me if I don’t propose a divorce. As long as we stay married, the baby you’re having will stay a bastard.


    Ashley, what are you going to tell others with your belly bulging every day? Are you gonna tell them


    that it’s a bastard due to your affair with Walter? Do you think the Hinton family will force me to divorce


    him because of a mistress with no title?”


    Seeing her slightly pale face, I chuckled and continued, “Ashley, do you think you are the only woman


    in the world who can give birth? If the Hinton family wants offspring, they can just talk to me. They will


    never need a bastard born by a divorced woman with no title.”


    “You…” She couldn’tplete her sentence at all. She red at me, extremely upset.


    Seeing her like that, I was in a better mood. I stepped back and turned to leave.