"So, I can have the baby?" Jessica's future looked brighter and happier. She was elated.
"Sure. If that's what you want." Edward teased and said coldly as if he were talking about the weather.
"Then will you marry me?" Jessica spat out the question she wanted to ask most.
"Marry you? So that's what you want. But Jessica, you? How dare you think you're good enough for me?" The cruel words jumped out of Edward's mouth, a look of arrogance and disgust contorted his face.
He wouldn't let anyone he disliked have any fantasies about him. He wouldn't even flirt with them. People might think he's cruel, but he never cared about what others thought.
"But shouldn't our child have both father and mother?" Jessica panicked. If he didn't marry her, how could she trust that he'd support her, and how to deal with the baby inside her? She didn't want to be a single mom.
"That's not my concern." Edward looked sideways while he spun the pen in his hand. He was teasing her, but his face was full of amused contempt.
"Edward, you can't do this to me. You know how much I love you. What am I supposed to do without you? What about your kid?" Then Jessica pounced forward and grasped his arm, her tears dripping into Edward's big hand.
"Jessica, get off me. Any feelings I had for you are fading away fast." Edward squinted his eagle eyes and looked coldly at Jessica's hands. His distaste was growing more and more obvious.
"I..." Jessica released him. Her heart was torn apart. He couldn't let her stay even though she had his baby? He never liked her? Then what should she do with herself? She loved him so much.
She had always known what a fickle lover he was. He never wasted his time or had feelings for any woman, let alone love them.
In the past, he'd never dated a woman longer than a month. She hung around him for several years, so she thought she was different. But in the end she was just another woman to him, who could be ditched at any time.
When he first told her to end their relationship, she thought it was merely a joke. But it was not. She waited so long, but he never came back to her. She figured out that she had been stupid -- and wrong.
"Do you still think the child is mine? You don't think someone else could be the father?" Edward stared coldly at her tear-soaked face. Her pitiful look didn't soften his heart, not at all.
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