Tristan pleaded for Carla to help him. "Carla, you are my sister! Please don't tell me that you're just gonna sit back and watch them do that to me."
At that moment, they were alone inside the home office.
Tristan kept on begging and pleading as he shook Carla's shoulder.
"Tristan, I want you to be completely honest with me right now. Aside from what you just told me, is there anything else that I should know?"
Carla flatly asked.
This left Tristan at such a loss. Looking a bit guilt-stricken, he didn't have the courage to look Carla in the eye. "Carla, I hope you can find it in yourself to believe me when I say that I had no idea that she was Peter's wife at the time. I had always taken my relationships seriously. When I found out that she was expecting, I was even planning to marry her..."
This sort of response was not what Carla had expected to hear, so this rendered her speechless.
As her eyes dilated, she turned cold right then and there.
Carla wanted to be frank, so she just went and asked him casually. There was no way for her to know that there was something more to the story that what they knew. Not only had he slept with Peter's wife, he even actually got her knocked up. The situation was indeed worse than she had originally thought.
This caused the anger to accumulate inside her. Without a warning, Carla slapped his face real hard.
"Tristan! How could you do something like that?"
"I didn't know! Carla, I swear I didn't know anything about it back then! It was just recently that I found out her true identity! But, it was already too late..."
Tristan had to bear the pain on his cheek as it still stung, but he had no intention of hitting Carla back whatsoever. After all, he couldn't blame Carla for anything. He deserved it.
He knew full well deep inside that what he had done was wrong.
"Tristan, do you have any idea what kind of trouble you've gotten yourself into?"
Carla was brimming with intense anger. It was a bit too much for her that she couldn't think of anything to say to him.
She wasn't expecting to hear him say that the woman was pregnant with his child.
Her husband was quite merciful enough to keep him alive.
"Tristan, listen to me! If it were anything else, anything else at all, I would be more than willing to help you out. But this is quite different! You have no other choice but to face it yourself!"
"If they end up leaving you disabled and put you in the wheelchair for good, our family has enough money to keep supporting you for the rest of your life."
"I think the only thing you could do now is to show yourself and sincerely apologize for what you've done. Do whatever it takes to ease their anger. When it's all over, I'll be the one to bring you to the hospital!"
Carla stated as she tried to push him out of the house.
Carla knew she couldn't lend him a helping hand in the situation he was in. He made such a big mistake, so there was no one else who could get him out of it but himself. Even if she could keep him safe for some time, she couldn't possibly keep protecting him forever.
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