Arya held her breath. She didn't even dare to make a sound. She had been ready for Xavier's anger, but she was really afraid when she faced him.
At this moment, he showed no expression, but Arya was afraid for no reason.
Xavier threw the coat he had taken off on the sofa and sat down opposite Arya. After looking at her for two seconds, he curled his lips into a cold smile. "What's wrong with the child?"
Just as Arya could hardly bear this tension, Xavier opened his mouth.
She pursed her lips, her body trembling, and her hands clasped tightly. At this moment, she was very nervous. "I… I do have a child."
"Didn't he die young?" Xavier bent over to pick up the cigarette on the coffee table and lit it.
Arya mustered up the courage to look at Xavier and replied, "No."
Xavier's hand trembled slightly. 'My mom told me the truth. She indeed has a child.'
The conversation reached a deadlock. Xavier had been smoking without saying anything.
There was a dead silence.
After taking the last puff, Xavier put out the cigarette in the ashtray. "Come here."
Arya could barely stand straight. If he had hit her, she might not have been so afraid. The quieter he was, the more terrified she was.
"My patience is running out."
Arya struggled to walk up to Xavier. Then he grabbed her wrist and made her kneel in front of him.
Xavier pinched her chin and looked down at her. "Arya…"
He tried his best to protect her and give her an official title. Even if she had a history of crime, he didn't mind, as long as she loved him. But how did she repay his kindness?
To bother him with a kid?
"Am I good to you?" Xavier was breathing heavily, emitting deterrence from his body, which had freaked her out.
Arya even forgot how hard he seized her wrist, but she couldn't feel the pain. She just observed the anger and disappointment in his eyes.
Tears slid down as she said, "Yes."
Xavier had not treated her badly except for being overbearing during sex, and he had given her everything he had promised.
Ryan was an unexpected and precious gift in her life, though that night was not good for her.
He was her closest person in this world.
They had the same bloodline.
Even if she would offend the man in front of her, she had to admit that Ryan was her child, in an aboveboard way.
"I know you look down upon me… You always think I'm a slut, and so do I… But Xavier, those affairs had happened before I met you… After being your girlfriend, I didn't sleep with others except you."
Because she was pinched by Xavier, she almost forced her words out, intermittently.
She met Xavier's gaze fearlessly and firmly. This was not betrayal.
She didn't want to lie to him. From the beginning, he knew that she was not a virgin.
Now it made no sense to measure her up.
Xavier closed his eyes. His expression was unreadable.
He took a deep breath and slowly let go of her. He was extremely disappointed. He pressed his forehead as if he had made a difficult decision. His voice was low and deep. "When you see me in the future, remember to keep away from me."
He wasn't sure if he would kill her on impulse when he saw her next time.
After saying that, he picked up his clothes and turned to leave. When he walked to the door, he did not turn his head back and said coldly, "When you leave, pick up everything that belongs to you. I don't want to see any traces of you. They will only make me sick."
He walked out without hesitation.
He could try to accept that she had slept with another man, but he couldn't accept that she had a child.
That child reminded him that he was not her first boyfriend.
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