Madam Escaped Again Sir novel Chapter 836

Daphne grabbed Sonia's hand worriedly. When Sonia saw her assistant's pale face and bony hands, she let out a sigh before using her other hand to hold Daphne's. "Calm down. I'm not firing you. I just figured that it'd be bad for you to continue working when you're pregnant and when your body's weak. That’s why I wanted you to take a break and rest a little more before coming back to work."

"I know, but there's no need for that." Daphne shook her head. "I'm about to abort this child, so I'll be able to come back to work soon. I won't need a break."

"What?" Sonia's expression changed immediately. "Are you really going to abort your child?" When Daphne heard the way Sonia phrased her sentence, she wasn't surprised by the fact that Sonia had expected her to abort the child. After all, if Tim told Sonia about Daphne's pregnancy, it was likely that he also told Sonia about Daphne's enquires about abortion.

“Yeah. I want to abort the child!" Daphne nodded with a bitter and disappointed look on her face. "This child shouldn't have existed, after all. The child's father doesn't know about my pregnancy, so I should abort it as soon as possible so that everything will go back to normal. I can just pretend that nothing happened between the child's

father and me."

Sonia gazed at Daphne for a long while before questioning her. "The child's father is Charles, right?"

Daphne froze with a dumbfounded look on her face as she locked gazes with Sonia. She was clearly stunned by the fact that Sonia knew about this. Sonia sighed upon seeing Daphne's reaction. "I knew it. I was right. Charles is the father. You've always had feelings for Charles, so I didn't expect you to sleep with anyone else. Furthermore, there haven't been any other men in your life, so the child has to belong to Charles, right? When did you and Charles..." Sonia didn't finish her sentence as she felt rather shy to utter the remaining words, but both of them knew what she meant.

Daphne hung her head low. There was a mixture of embarrassment and awkwardness written all over her face. "It was that time when Mr. Lane left your office after he got mad. You were worried about him, and you told me to check on him to make sure he didn't do anything stupid."

Sonia recalled what happened back then. Charles had just confessed his feelings for me at that time. I rejected him and told him that I didn't have any feelings for him. I told him that he's only a good friend and that I couldn't be with him. He was really sad when he left. I was worried that he might do something rash, but I couldn't chase after him since I had just rejected his confession. Wouldn't I be confusing him if I chased after him and showed him my care? That's why I told Daphne to help me watch over him to make sure he didn’t do anything stupid. I figured that Daphne is his ex-secretary, and they were classmates, after all. I thought it'd be good for her to check on him. But she didn't return after checking on him, and she was walking in a rather odd manner when she came back the second day. I didn't think much about it then, but it seems like there were a lot of things I neglected. Sonia rubbed her temples as she reflected on how careless she had been.

"So, it was that day. That explains it." Sonia pressed her lips together. "I just realized that things had been odd between you and Charles after that day. Before that, you guys seemed like normal friends. But after that day, his attitude toward you changed drastically, and he became really rude. You also seemed rather conflicted when someone mentioned his name."

"Yeah. It was because I slept with him that night." A bitter look spread across Daphne's face. "After Charles left that day, he went to buy alcohol. I told him not to drink too much, but he wouldn't listen to me, so I had no choice but to sit and watch him drink. I figured I would send him home after he got drunk. But I didn't expect him to mistakenly think of me as you after he was drunk. He pulled me..."

Daphne looked up at Sonia.