Goodbye You Never Loved Me novel (Martha and Stefan) novel Chapter 568

The sound was not loud, but it was enough to calm Stefan down.
He reached out and pulled Martha's hand away, his voice tinged with hoarseness as he asked, "Who?"
As soon as he spoke, a soft voice sounded outside the door.
"Daddy, it's me."
The door was pushed ajar and Jimmy's head poked through the crack in the bedroom.
Martha lowered her eyes and asked with concern and tenderness, "What happened to you, Jimmy?"
Jimmy stood at the door looking wronged. His big eyes were filled with glistening tears as he heard her question.
"I had a nightmare and I want Daddy to help me sleep."
After considering for a while, Martha quickly got up from bed.
"Your daddy must be tired now. Let him rest. Mommy will help you sleep."
Jimmy shook his head gently and said softly, "Mommy, you're tired too. You should rest first."
Saying that, he walked into the bedroom and grabbed Stefan's hand, "Daddy, can you help me sleep?"
Stefan looked indulgently at his son before nodding his head slightly.
As soon as he nodded his head, Jimmy dragged him out of the bedroom immediately.
Soon after the bedroom door closed again, the room fell silent.
Martha looked towards the door, clenching her hands into fists.
Damn! Why did this brat have to show up now? Didn't he know today was supposed to be her wedding night?
But even if she felt unhappy about it, there wasn't anything she could do now, since Stefan had left with Jimmy...
In Jimmy's room.
After being dragged into Jimmy's room, Stefan patted Jimmy's head dotingly, and soothed him gently, "Don't be afraid, Jimmy, Daddy and Mommy are both here."
Jimmy kept quiet, his lips pursed together without saying anything.
Stefan lifted up Jimmy's blanket,"Would you like to lie down first?"
"Yes."
Jimmy answered softly before quickly lying down on bed, acting like a good boy.
Just when Stefan was thinking about how to coax Jimmy into sleeping, Jimmy suddenly said something shocking, "Daddy, I feel like Mommy isn't really Mommy."
Even though this mommy looked exactly like his real mommy, he didn't feel that she was his real mother somehow...
Moreover, his mommy had never scolded him before, but after she came back, she did...
Many times, he felt that this mommy was deliberately controlling her emotions and pretending to be gentle, but he had no evidence.
Thinking of this, Jimmy unconsciously clutched the blanket tightly with his small hands and looked nervously at Daddy.
He was afraid that if he said such things, Daddy would scold him. But he really felt that something was wrong with Mommy now.
Stefan furrowed his brows slightly and looked at Jimmy in confusion after a while.
"Why do you say that?"
"Jimmy's mommy is not like this. She... is gentler than this mommy."
Jimmy couldn't continue speaking and just scratched his head irritably.
He didn't know how to express it properly, but he just felt like this mommy wasn't his real one.
Seeing Jimmy struggling, Stefan thought of his suspicion in the bedroom.
He couldn't help but start to doubt as well. But now he couldn't say it or let Jimmy worry about it.
He smiled and patted Jimmy's head gently while comforting him, "Jimmy is overthinking it. Your mommy is the real one. How could she not be?"
"But..."
Jimmy opened his mouth, wanting to say something but didn't know what exactly to say
Maybe he was thinking too much?
As soon as Jimmy thought so, he suddenly realized that if Mommy wasn't the real one, then Daddy would have noticed it too.
But since Daddy noticed nothing wrong yet, it was possible that he was wrong
With these thoughts in mind, Jimmy suddenly felt he must have thought too much.
Stefan chuckled while patting Jimmy's shoulder before coaxing him back into bed.
"Don't worry about it. Mommy loves you just as much as Daddy does. You will always be our little baby."
Shyly responding, Jimmy hid under the covers.
After chatting with the little guy for a while longer, Stefan left when Jimmy gradually fell asleep.
Leaning against the wall outside of Jimmy's room quietly afterwards, his eyelids drooped heavily.
The words spoken by Jimmy were like a stone thrown into still water, causing ripples throughout in Stefan's mind.
At this moment, he could no longer ignore what happened earlier on in their bedroom...
If it were before, Martha would never speak or act that way.
But that was clearly Martha. How could it be someone else?
Stefan denied the possibility but deep down he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was off about her.
He didn't dwell on it too much.
Perhaps Martha had changed a bit after going through all those things in Z Country.
After all, no one could bear the fact that their uncles repeatedly hurt their mother.
He sighed helplessly and turned to walk towards the master bedroom but stopped at the doorway.
After a moment of hesitation, he turned around and went back to Jimmy's room instead, deciding to sleep with Jimmy for one night.