"What do you want to eat for dinner?" asked Arvin. He was trying to shift the topic.
Angela took a deep breath and said, "Whatever."
"Okay. I am going back to J City tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?" asked Arvin.
"No." Angela refused without any hesitation.
"..."
The next noon, Sven, Nicole, and their two sons were having lunch at the Si family's house.
After lunch, Angela thoughtfully asked Sven, "Do you know whether Arvin has done anything about Nita?"
Sven looked at his sister with furrowed eyebrows and said, "Ask Arvin yourself if you want to know."
Angela held up her chin, rolled her eyes, and said, "If you don't tell me, I will tell your wife that you met a beautiful woman in the hospital yesterday and were charmed by her."
Sven listened to her sister's words and said hastily, "Wait! Wait! Angela, you are so good at talking nonsense. Does Arvin know that you are this good at making things up?"
"What does he have to do with it?" asked Angela.
Sven patted her head and said, "Remember prenatal education! Angela, you are now an expecting mother. Lying like this will have bad influence on my niece."
He and Nicole didn't have any daughters, so they expected that Angela would have a daughter.
Therefore, when talking about Angela's baby, he would refer to it as his niece.
"Brother, why are you being so fussy? Can't you just tell me? If you don't tell me, I'll tell dad that you bullied me," said Angela.
Sven was speechless. What did he do to deserve such an evil sister?
Angela had been hostile to men except her father ever since she wanted to have a divorce with Arvin.
She used to coquettishly beg him if she had wanted something, but now she wouldn't directly threaten him!
Sven shook his head unwillingly and told her the truth, "Arvin had Nita put in jail, but Nita's mother got her out temporarily under the pretense of mental disorder."
"Does that mean that Nita is free now?" asked Angela. This made Angela very upset.
Nita and Rosa had ruined her relationship with Arvin. Why was Nita free and living happily out there?
Rosa was a patient who did not have much time left, so she would not bother about her. But, Nita? Angela was no saint, so she couldn't...
"No. I was told that she is living miserably..." replied Sven. Sven looked at Angela, hesitated, and said, "Sinews of her arms were cut off, and her uterus was also removed, and the worst part was... she was not anesthetized during the operation."
Thinking about the pain... Angela gasped in horror and touched her showing belly with discomfort.
All right. Since that was the case, Angela would not worry about Nita for the moment.
At night
A dark shadow got out of the door of the Si family's house, got on a black Benz which had already been waiting, and went away.
The Benz stopped at the parking lot of a hotel where two people checked in.
The next morning, they got on the car before eight o'clock and went off to the airport.
Fabian touched Angela's head and said, "Have you thought about it?"
"Yes," answered Angela. She put her hands on her showing stomach and quietly looked out of the window.
In the past, her mother and Ella left this place while they were pregnant and heartbroken, and so could she.
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