Say You Will Be Mine novel Chapter 38

After a long time, Rebecca said quietly, “No.”

Samuel was stunned. Rebecca held his hand and sincerely said, “Mommy has Aaron, but you have no one.”

The fear of Samuel was real then, and the love for Samuel was also real now.

In the past few years, she had watched him grow from a rookie father with a lot of trouble to what he was now. He tried to control his temper, tried to give the children a family, tried to bring her and her brother up by himself...

These were things which he might well have left to his servants, but he did them alone, not because he was merely trying to prove something, but because he was genuinely good to them.

Even Rebecca’s life was saved by him from Laney regardless of life risk.

Her younger brother always cried for her mother. Rebecca knew Samuel had a hard time these years.

There was no reason for her to abandon her father.

Sidney stopped crying and looked at her father and sister with swollen eyes.

He was only three and he just wanted his families together. He did not understand the entanglement and struggle behind.

Samuel moved lips. He was moved and pleased looking at Rebecca in the eyes. He held Rebecca’s hands and said, “Good girl, take your brother to mom and live there for a few days. I am sick recently and I have to see a doctor.”

“Daddy, I'll go with you to the doctor,” Said Rebecca.

Samuel refused, insisted on sending Rebecca to the United States. Aaron came out to pick up the children. Samuel said goodbye to the two children in the courtyard door. He did not even see Matilda.

After he returned to home, he made an appointment with a doctor to check and treat his mental condition.

He had a hard day, but he told nobody. Every day when he couldn't sleep, he would take out his phone. The screensaver on it was a selfie of Matilda with two children. He kept it subconsciously.

He tried to forget them, but he couldn't.

Three months went by.

This day, after chatting with the doctor, Samuel received an overseas phone call.

On the phone was the long-lost Matilda's voice, “Samuel, I want to go home.”

Samuel turned pale on face and took a step back until he leaned against the wall. He asked urgently, “Matilda, where are you? Why do you sound so weak? Are you all right --”

Before the words fell the phone was answered by another person. Aaron's slightly cold voice was heard, “If you don't want her to die, come to Sri Lanka.”

Then he said the name of a hotel and hung up.

He was unable to hold the phone in his shaking hands, and his phone fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

He stood there for a full minute.

A minute later, he bought the fastest flight to Sri Lanka and arrived at the hotel mentioned by Aaron with excitement and trepidation.

He did not look good and only nodded to his query. Aaron took him to the room.

Samuel had to suppress his heart that was about to jump to his throat and followed Aaron to a small house with a swimming pool.

When the door opened, the bony figure appeared. He was stunned.

Was that Matilda?

She lay on the bed with her eyes tightly closed. Her face was pale and her cheekbones were deeply sunken. Her beautiful eyebrows furrowed like those of a dying person.