Watching Emily's face change, Sean slowly added, "But maybe I can change the result."
She felt a little relieved, "Did you just frighten me on purpose?"
His lips angled slightly in a cynical smile, "Did I? But, you should be confident in me; after all, it was I who saved your baby."
"Yes." Distracted by the thought of her lost child, she wondered whether Sean could have saved him with his superior medical skills, had she been in D country at the time of his birth.
Seeing her pallid distress, Sean became serious, looking at her with a clinical eye, "What's the matter?"
She simply shook her head and flashed a wan smile, trying to assure him, "Nothing."
Unconsciously, Sean wrinkled his eyebrows. Suddenly he grasped Emily's hand to feel the pulse. Minutes later, his face sank and he asked, "Did you give birth to a second child? And where is the child?"
Closing her eyes, she tried to hide her pain, but her tightly pursed lips betrayed her, "The child died at birth."
"What?" Pain made Sean's pupils contract, and he couldn't control his anger, "Why didn't you tell me that you were with child? If you had told me, the child would not have died!"
"I'm sorry, but I didn't know that such a tragedy was going to happen."
"The child belonged to Jacob, didn't it? Does he have anything to do with the child's death?"
"No! Don't say that!" Emily interrupted him, quietly wiping her teary eyes, "The child was unlucky. It must be fate."
Sean sneered and turned to Jacob. "Am I wrong? He tried to kill your first child. It's not strange that he killed your second child. Amnesia cannot erase all his mistakes or his character!"
"What do you mean?" Jacob, who had quietly kept his temper for quite some time, suddenly jumped to his feet, his eyes burning scarlet as he slowly asked, "Why would I kill my own child?"
"You don't believe that you are capable of it?" Unafraid, Sean looked him straight in the eye, "I don't know if you've really become an amnesiac or not, but maybe it's all a ploy to get forgiveness from Cloris."
"Stop! Stop! Please stop, Sean!" Even perceptive, Emily could feel the change in Jacob's breathing and knew the rage that dwelt under the surface, so she begged Sean, "Let bygones be bygones. There isn't any sense in dwelling on the past and bitter events."
Jacob stared at Emily quietly, cut to the quick by her words which, though seeking to make peace, did not deny Sean's accusations.
So, he really had done things that hurt her in the past...
He remembered none of it, but the deeds remained, and he was the only one who had forgotten them.
It was unfair to Emily.
"I want to recover all my memories." He lowered his voice, with a myriad of emotions waring inside him.
Confused, Emily stared at him, suddenly wondering if it was wise to have brought him to D country for the purpose of regaining his memories.
If the recovery brought him pain, then she would rather that he never regained any memories!
But Jacob was determined to, and Emily could not dissuade him.
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