Wolves, Maces, And Blood novel Chapter 123

“Hello?”

Gemma frowned, “Are you there? Can you hear me?”

“Yes, yes, I can…”

Cecilia was stunned for a long time before she recovered and quietly swallowed. She was very nervous. She nodded and said, “Hi, my name is Cecilia, and I am engaged to Sean.”

“And there’s a 4-year-old daughter…”

Cecilia was nervous as hell, but her emotional intelligence was still there. She guessed that Sean would never tell Gemma about Phyllis, so she was on her guard.

She said there was a four-year-old daughter, but she didn’t say whether Phyllis was hers or theirs.

The meaning between the two was quite different.

The two talked for about five minutes, causing sweat to rise from Cecilia’s forehead. Her heart was in her throat, and there was a faint worry in it.

She had always thought Sean was an orphan and had no family, so she didn’t think much of it. And now Sean had grandparents! Phyllis’s origin might not be hidden for long.

When that happened, when Gemma and Dean learned that Sean wasn’t Phyllis’s dad, and that she didn’t even know who the father was.

Would Gemma and Dean still approve of her marriage to Sean?

Prior to the engagement, the information that Isaac Moore found about Sean made everyone, including Cecilia herself, think Sean was no good for Cecilia.

However, after these days of contact, Cecilia gradually found that the real Sean was not as bad as the research materials said, on the contrary, Sean was very good.

He was tall and handsome. He was generous, courageous, and responsible. He was very kind to her, to Phyllis, to Marcia, to Matthew Moore.

He almost fits most women’s fantasy of a “husband”!

Was she worthy of such a fine man?

Cecilia had become a little dependent on Sean in her heart. And Gemma’s sudden appearance made her feel strangely scared.

She was afraid of losing something...

…

What Cecilia didn’t know was that while she was hiding in the bathroom of the hospital, Sean was explaining Phyllis to Gemma and Dean in the Cloudy Villa in the Crane Town.

“Cecilia, Cecilia…”

Gemma returned the phone to Sean, recited Cecilia’s name a few times, then turned to Dean and asked, “Honey, does this kid’s name sound familiar to you?”

“Yes.”

Dean thought for a moment, frowning, then suddenly his eyes glinted and he said, “Right! I think she’s the granddaughter of Carter Moore, president of the Moore Group!”

“Five years ago, when N&P Media was still there, we did some business with the Moore Group, and I met her a couple of times.”

“But…”

After a moment’s hesitation, Dean continued, “I heard afterwards that the girl had conceived out of wedlock, had a daughter which made all the talk of Hilshire, and had never married.”

“Her daughter, by the way, is about four years old.”

Four years old!

At these words, Gemma’s eyelids jumped and her turned pale. She looked back at Sean and asked, “Sean, you said you have a wife and a four-year-old daughter!”

“By daughter, I don’t suppose you mean...”

Gemma didn’t dare say the rest, but if that was the case, to be honest, it was a little hard for her to take!

After all, she was also a woman, and she was old and old-fashioned. Having a child out of wedlock was, in Gemma’s opinion, a very unfeminine act.

He couldn’t be with such a woman.

“That’s right.”

Sean, however, nodded his head without hesitation and said, “The daughter I’m talking about is Cecilia’s daughter Phyllis, who is very sweet, thoughtful and lovely.”

“If you met her, you’d really like her…”

Before Sean could finish his words.

“No!”

Gemma shook her head emphatically and said, “No way!”

“Sean, if you have a girl you like, and you don’t have a relationship with Cornelia, and you don’t want to marry her, I’m not comfortable, but I’m okay with that.”

“But…”

“But you can’t just leave Cornelia and marry a woman with a child. If she had been married before, even for the second time, I would have accepted her. I would never have accepted pregnancy out of wedlock!”

Gemma was adamant.

Five years ago, after all, the Wright family was a big family on the South side of town, and Dean and Gemma were big business players. Now, although they were old, and had no fight, and their hearts were dying, once they recognized the truth, they had a kind of calm arrogance that was quite frightening.

Beside them, Cornelia’s face changed and her disappointment deepened. She was thinking, “Sean would rather marry an unmarried pregnant woman and raise someone else’s child than be with me?”

The bitterness in her heart was indescribable.

Cornelia had always been self-abased due to her childhood life environment and experience, so when Sean rejected Gemma’s proposal just now, she took the initiative to excuse Sean at the first time.

Because she didn’t think she was good enough for Sean, and it made sense that Sean would say no.

Now, Sean’s choice had struck another blow to her fragile and humble ego. She quietly bowed her head, tears swirling in her eyes, and she wanted to cry.