Developed some feelings for the child?
How was this possible?
Jessie shook her head and took two steps back, looking at George with an even stranger look.
Clearly, she still didn't want to take his word for it.
George pursed his lips, and did not insist that she must believe it.
After all, she would not trust him as long as the wariness of him was not removed from her heart.
So, trust was something that needed to come slowly later.
"If you don't believe it, just think of it as me telling a lie to deceive you." George said in a light voice.
Jessie bit her lip.
So he really was joking.
But it was a bad joke for him to make.
Taking a breath, Jessie asked again, "Then Mr. Joe, why on earth did you agree to me keeping the baby and hospitalizing me? I'm pretty sure that you wanted me to give birth to the baby, what about after the birth? Are you going to take the baby away and throw it away?"
That was her biggest worry now.
Yes, she was no longer worried that he would make her abort the baby, but that he would take it away and throw it away when she had it, or give it to someone else so that mother and child would never see each other again for the rest of their lives.
If that was the case, then she had to say that his methods were more vicious.
This type of revenge was simply unconscionable.
It was more painful to take the baby away and not see it for the rest of her life than to just let her abort it.
Thinking of this, Jessie's face turned white, and she couldn't help but breathe sharply, and the way she looked at George, she was even more wary.
George naturally felt the change in her, based on her look, he naturally understood what she was thinking, helplessly shook his head, "Put away those shocking thoughts of yours, I am not that underhanded."
Jessie swallowed hard, "So ...... Mr. Joe, you're not going to take the baby away, are you?"
George nodded, "I don't have that in mind."
Jessie clenched her hand and couldn't help but smile, "Great, I thought you let me have the baby just to carry it away so that we could never see each other for the rest of our lives, as a way to get back at me."
After hearing the woman's words, George said, "You are quite good at imagination."
Jessie lowered her head, "I'm sorry, Mr. Joe, I don't want to, it's really because the psychological shadow you brought me was too big, so I had to think about everything more."
In fact, she didn't even want to think about it in those terms; thinking about it too much made her feel nervous and about to turn into a nervous wreck.
But there was really nothing she could do about it.
After listening to Jessie's explanation, George felt tired and ashamed at the same time.
For it was indeed all the stress and shadows he had brought to her that she would think such nonsense.
"Forget it." George lifted his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose, "I asked you to keep the child, hospitalized and conditioned to give birth to the child for no other reason, nor was it my intention to take the child away so that you can not meet for the rest of your lives, I just suddenly want to see what kind of child I have, whether it was a genius or a fool."
He said this deliberately to dispel the last doubts in Jessie's mind.
Jessie blinked and stared at George, as if she wanted to see if what George said was true or not.
But after watching for a while, she watched as George's expression that had not changed in the slightest under her gaze, and she breathed a huge sigh of relief.
What he said, which should be true, was that the reason he had suddenly changed his mind and let her keep the child was not because he had developed feelings for it, nor was it because he wanted to get back at her.
Rather, it was because of the curiosity that had arisen about this child.
He simply wanted to know what it would be like to have a child with his blood in it.
To put it bluntly, he just took an interest in the child on a whim, and nothing more.
But it didn't matter, she didn't expect him to have feelings for the child, as long as he didn't use the child to get back at her family.
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