You Can Run But You Can't Hide My Contractual Wife novel Chapter 171

"Bill, son, I'm your mother. I'm your only family." Kelly still couldn't believe that her son was defending a woman for the very first time.

Kelly couldn't just stand that the woman whom her son wanted was Arabella, the murderer of her husband.

It would have been okay with her if not Arabella even if Bill would choose the poorest girl in the city but just not her. Kelly swore before in front of Ed's body that she would not allow Arabella to enter their family. She would not let it happen as her promise to her late husband.

Now that Bill was the one who's making the way, she knew it was the beginning of catastrophe in their family.

"Bill, that woman! Remember your dad. She's the...." Kelly refused to give in. For her, she was just saving her son from great damage before it was too late.

"She's the mother of my child." Bill deliberately cut her off.

Arabella felt the intense tension in the air. Adam was quick to hide his mom's back seeing Kelly again. Now, he understood that the woman who kidnapped him was also his grandmother. He had so many questions in his mind after witnessing his father and grandma's fight.

'Aren't they suppose to love each other like him and her mom?' Adam wondered.

"Bill, don't do this! That woman is a curse!" Kelly shouted angrily. Her elegance seemed to be built in that even if she was angry, Kelly still looked sophisticated.

"This conversation is over," Bill announced impatiently as he raised his hand. Some staff of the hospital came in running.

"What are you all doing?" Kelly shouted at the nurses and doctors who came to rescue Jaime. "Do you want to get fired?" Kelly's eyeballs bulged as she shouted in fury. She had all the right to fire them as she was one of the stockholders of the hospital.

The staff didn't stop as they went inside the stock room got Jaime on her stretcher and went away swiftly.

The scene was in a flash. Kelly was left with her anger to her own son.

"Bill, I hope you will not regret this!" Kelly looked at Arabella with extreme hatred and strode away furiously.

Adam held his mother's hand while he looked at his father. "Only men who were brave enough are capable to father a child." Adam then remembered his father's words. Looking at his father, Adam smiled proudly. It seemed his father was not a coward. He knew he had more to discover about his father. Little by little the scene made a big impact on Adam's heart.

"Let's go!" Bill suddenly sounded.

With his voice, Arabella regained her senses.

"Wait. What?" She was still trying to absorb everything that happened and now his words made her froze again.

"Everything is settled here. We are going home." Bill answered plainly like nothing had happened.

"Home?" Arabella felt something wasn't right. She frowned at him.

"Adam let's go!" Arabella hurriedly said. She was supposed to thank him for what he had done for her mom but for a person who suffered a lot in his hand, she could not feel any gratitude towards him.

She could not stop thinking that everything he had done for her had a price and now, she was absolutely right.

'Home? He must be dreaming!' She thought with disgust.

"Adam let's go!" Arabella repeated seeing her son was unmoved.

She thought her voice wasn't loud enough that made Adam unable to hear her but when her eyes landed on him, Arabella was stupefied. She raised and centered Adam as her world. All expressions of her son were engraved in her heart so she could easily tell what Adam was feeling right now.

"Adam... baby," Arabella uttered with teary eyes. Is Adam really leaving her?

“Mom…” Adam uttered with a low and sad tone.

“Let’s go, Adam.” Bill sounded again coldly giving his hand to the little boy.

Adam looked at his mom for a while with a muddled expression. Arabella instantly felt not right. Sudden pain in her heart had surged up.

“Adam, is this man blackmailed you? Did he make bad things to you?” Seeing Adam’s expression, Arabella had a gut feeling that Bill threatened Adam as he always did to her.

“No, mom,” Adam responded shaking his head as a sign of strong disapproval.

“Then, are you leaving mom?” She was hurt by her own words. Deep inside she felt like her heart was sliced with a sharp blade. The slice was slow and smooth that made her feel the sharp blade every move it made.

Adam didn’t answer instead he lowered his head.

“Son,” With a loving tone, she called him again. Never in her life that she thought Adam would leave her for his dad. His reaction now was telling her that on this day, her greatest fear was about to happen and she was not prepared for it. She would never be prepared to separate herself from her son.

“Let’s go, Adam.” Bill sounded again while his hand was hanging in the air waiting for Adam’s hand.

Arabella stood up and looked at Bill sharply. “Who do you think you are?” She shouted at him as she could not accept that a man who wanted to abandon his child from the start was now playing a heroic father and her son who she raised all by herself was now contemplating to go with her. She wanted to scream at how unfair the world was.

“You can go with us if you want.” Bill just smirked at her using a plain but sarcastic tone.

“You are such a scheming person!” She was unable to control her strong resentment towards him. Her voice became louder.

“No fighting.” Feeling the strong tension in the air, Adam suddenly butted in. He knew his mother was already angry and she knew how stubborn she would be if it reached the peak.

“Mom… I want to go with my….” Adam staggered with his last word. “With my dad.” He continued with a soft low tone. He had no dad to call since birth so it was an awkward word for him. He was not used to the word and also to the person whom he called dad.

‘I’m sorry mom. I hope you can forgive me on this.’ In Adam’s heart, he was praying that his father’s plan would work.

“Whatever happened, you have to go with me,” Bill instructed Adam earlier in his office.

“But… I am the protector of my mom. I protect not hurt her.” He refuted with a brave tone.

“Look buddy, your mom is very stubborn,” Bill uttered with furrowed eyebrows. “And she loves you very much. So, having said that, you are her greatest weakness.” Bill stated his sentences like a strategic plan.