Looking at her like this, George didn't feel any joy, only anger.
If it had been the old him and she had been willing to make that offer in exchange, of course he would have been happy to do so.
But now, he does not feel the slightest bit happy about it.
Because of her mistrust.
Was she so adamant that he would sue her father?
"Okay." George bit his teeth, his voice inaudible with joy and anger, "Then if I ask you to abort the baby, will you be willing to do it?"
Hearing this request from him, Jessie's heart sank for a moment, but on his face, there was no great reaction.
George kept looking at her, and instead of seeing shock and reluctance on her face, he only saw calmness, and inexplicably had some ominous feeling in his heart.
What did she mean?
Why was there no reaction at all to hearing this request from him?
What George did not know was that Jessie was not unresponsive, but that her reaction had passed two days earlier.
From the moment it occurred to her that he would not spare her father, it had crossed her mind that he might offer to let her take the baby in exchange for her own father.
That's why she didn't react too much now when she heard this request from him, but rather had the feeling of having finally come.
Because, for a long time, she was mentally prepared for everything.
With a bitter smile, Jessie was about to say yes, but her father suddenly clenched his fist and punched on the rail of his hospital bed.
A loud clang startled everyone present.
Jessie looked at the swaying railing, and then at Jessie's father's hand dripping blood, her whole face suddenly changed, "Dad, you're bleeding!"
She hadn't expected that her father would be so angry at George's words, so angry that he actually went and hammered something so hard that he cracked the skin on his hand.
For a while, Jessie was so anxious that tears kept welling up in her eyes.
She hastily drew several pieces of tissue from the bedside of George's hospital bed, then took her father's hand and pressed the tissue to the broken skin.
However it didn't help much, Jessie's father's hand broke the skin too much, no matter how much Jessie pressed and tried to stop the bleeding, the pieces of tissue simply wouldn't stop and soon became red with blood.
Jessie was so anxious that she cried out, "Dad, I'll call the doctor to come and give you medicine, wait."
She dropped the tissue in her hand, and was about to go out of the ward to call the doctor.
In her haste, she even forgot that there was an emergency pager in the ward and that if she pressed it, a doctor would come over.
But Jessie's father felt that his hand was not a problem at all. He was about to open his mouth to call Jessie back, but George, who was on the hospital bed, suddenly spoke up, "There is a medical kit in the ward, there is no need to call a doctor for such a small injury, just apply the medicine and treat it yourself."
Hearing the words medical kit, Jessie, who had seized the door, instantly stopped in her tracks and turned over, looking at him with an excited gaze, "Is there really a medical kit?"
"It's usually in the bedside table, so look for it yourself." George said faintly.
Jessie's father's eyes glared at him viciously, "You stop lying to my daughter, do you think we will believe you? Just now you had made the request with Jessie to let her abort the baby, I would have just killed you."
Jessie's father's eyes were red, "I know you don't love Jessie, and I didn't ask you to accept Jessie, and I didn't ask you to accept the child in Jessie's belly. Why can't you even accept this point? Is your heart really that cruel?"
Although he had seen her smile to him before, there were too many emotions mixed in that smile, bitterness, expectation, hope, hopelessness, loss, etc.
There was no such thing as just pure joy as there is now.
Was it because she doesn't remember him, doesn't love him anymore, that she can let go of those past emotions and smile at him so purely?
Yet such purity and cleanliness was not what he wanted.
He stared intently at Jessie, as if trying to find something on her face, to find some of those emotions from the past.
But after looking for a long time, he couldn't find what he was looking for. For a while, George's heart tightened up and his face gradually turned a bit unpleasant.
She was really ruthless, hypnotising herself and forgetting him so cleanly.
George's eyes kept falling on Jessie.
Jessie was a little uncomfortable by his look, not having shrunk her neck, asked with apprehension and fear: "You look at me like that, do I have anything on my face?"
Hearing his daughter's words, Jessie's father took a step forward and blocked her behind him, waiting for George, "What are you doing looking at my daughter? Be careful I'll gouge your eyes out!"
George raised his eyes, calmly locked eyes with Jessie's father before calmly shifting and looking the other way.
Such a hasty operation once again made Jessie's father feel like he had punched the air and was furious, "You ......"
This kid was really the nemesis of their Robinson family, the robbery of the Robinson family.
The family could not keep calm, when they met him.
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