"Zoey, the baby in her womb was lost..." said Vivi while looking at Zoey, with an even more painful expression.
"Oh really? If it was the case, she deserved it…" said Zoey instinctively. Suddenly, her eyes glared and her mouth went slightly open. She was startled and speechless for a while before she could ask Vivi again," You… what did you just say?
Ximena's baby is lost? That's what you want to tell me?" Without saying a word, Vivi nodded, the pain on her face spreading wildly, revealing a deeper level of despair and pain. "How is that possible?"
With a loud gasping voice, Zoey cried out carelessly and abruptly, which attracted a lot of attention in the cafe.
"Yeah, I also want to ask how's that possible?" This time, Vivi's voice was light and indifferent, as if she was asking herself.
With the news syncing down on her, Zoey's arrogance immediately faded away, and she shrugged her shoulders, as if unwilling to admit the truth, but she had to whether she liked it or not. Then with a softer voice, she said in a frustrated tone," My brother even allowed that woman to have his baby."
Realizing the fact, Zoey felt a little sad, not for Vivi, but for herself.
Indeed, no one could teach the heart whom to love or not to love. Especially with Aaron, no one could walk into his life and care for his heart and be loved by him back. Even Zoey, his half-sister could not even do that. As long as she acted carefully and did not cross his bottom line, he would not do anything to her, and would just allow her to act on her own will. But, deep in her heart, she knew…
She knew very well that he didn't think of her as his sister at all. Every time he was near her, Zoey could feel that he didn't like her. Not in her entire life did Zoey ever felt that Aaron showed his sincere brotherly love for her, nor even just a slight concern.
With that, Zoey had been used to his cold treatment. If it was not for the reason that they shared the same mother, she was even afraid that he would have thrown her directly into the sea to be fed to the sharks after she acted against his wills so many times. The more she thought about it, the more crossed she was with Aaron. Looking down at the coffee the waiter had just put down in front of her, she stirred it gently with a spoon, even forgetting that she didn't add any milk or sugar at all.
With their head hanged low, Vivi and Zoey went quiet and just sipped their coffees with different thoughts running on their heads. Behind them the café grew busier as costumers come and go, everything around them seemed to go on normally.
While on that table by the corner seated two friends whose minds and hearts were troubled. Both were confused whether they would be happy with what happened to their worst enemy or be sorry for her. At the moment, Vivi's mood was not much better than Zoey's. They preferred to keep their silence and just let their thoughts run wild as to what they would do in case they come face to face with Ximena and Aaron.
Even, Zoey was more sad and painful. Although she didn't know how many women had affairs with Aaron before, she clearly understood that no one was ever allowed to be pregnant with his child.
Under any circumstances, and under not proclaimed rules, women that were connected with him were not allowed to be pregnant.
But, to their surprise, Ximena was pregnant, and it was after three months that they got her pregnancy news!
What was that supposed to mean? What was with Ximena that made her so different among all the other women? According to what had happened, it simply meant that Aaron really wanted her to be pregnant, and even wanted her baby. She even heard from the doctor that when he said that Ximena's baby could not be saved, he obviously sensed that Aaron was emitting a murderous aura all over his body.
"No, no, it's not like that! I'm sure my brother doesn't love her," muttered Zoey unhappily, with sore nose and red eyes. "I'm going to find her and tell her that she is not qualified to be with my brother."
After that, in a fit of pique, she stood up, grabbed her bag aside and left the coffee shop.
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