The Goodbye You Asked For

Everyone knew that I had an enviable marriage and a husband who loved me like his life.

But the day after I found out I was pregnant, I heard him talking to his secretary.

“My wife is pregnant. What about Miss Jenkins and the boy? The boy is already three years old. What if my wife knows about this…”

My husband’s eyes were sharp.

“She must not know about this. Let Regina keep her mouth shut!”

A boy? Three years old? Before I understood what this sentence meant, my phone vibrated at this time.

It was a photo sent by Regina. In the photo, my husband held a little boy high up, his eyebrows and eyes were full of pampering and tenderness.

I staggered back to the bedroom and called my brother who worked in the Overseas Security Bureau.

“Brother, help me create a fatal accident. I want to fake my death and leave Kevin.”

——

“What’s wrong, Maisie? Isn’t Kevin very good to you? What happened?”

I wanted to say something, but as soon as I opened my mouth, tears fell uncontrollably.

Yes, everyone knew that Kevin treated me very well. Ten years ago, he fell in love with me at first sight and started to pursue me madly.

He was the only son of Warner Group, but I was just an orphan without a father or a mother, who could only depend on my brother for life.

Everyone speculated that Kevin was just used to seeing beautiful women and he pursued me just for the sake of novelty. Even I thought so.

But he pursued me relentlessly for five years, until five years ago when I finally nodded and agreed. He immediately announced it to the world and gave me a century wedding.

Everyone thought that this was his obsession with love that he could not get for five years, otherwise why would he rush to get married just after getting together?

Everyone was looking forward to it, waiting to see when Kevin would get tired of me.

But after getting married, he personally broke everyone’s speculation with his actions. For five years, I was still the person he held in his heart.

Until now, everyone in Rodoni City knew that Kevin was vigorous and invincible in the business world. He had only one weakness, which was me.

I understood my brother’s doubts. Even I didn’t expect that Kevin would cheat.

Although I didn’t say anything, my brother on the other end of the phone seemed to sense my emotions. He spoke softly after pondering for a long time.

“The day after tomorrow, I will send a plane to pick you up the day after tomorrow. Leave the rest to me.”

After hanging up the phone, I still kept the posture of making a call.

At this moment, my phone vibrated again. It was sent by Regina.

[Maisie, have you seen the photo? Are you still complacent about being pregnant? My son and his son are three years old. What is your child?]

After seeing this message, all my guesses were verified.

Kevin really cheated. We had been married for only five years, but his son with Regina was three years old.

Thinking of this, I couldn’t hold on any longer. My knees softened and I fell to the ground.

I gently covered my belly with trembling hands.

Inside was the child I had been waiting for for five years, but he came at the wrong time.

Just when I was at a loss, Kevin walked into the bedroom and found me sitting on the ground.

“Maisie, the ground is cold. Why are you sitting on the ground? Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

His face was full of worry and my reflection was full in his beautiful eyes, almost exactly the same as every day in the past five years.

I quietly locked the screen of my phone and forced a smile.

“My stomach is a little uncomfortable, probably because I am not used to the pregnancy and I can’t stand steadily for a while.”

Chapter 2

Kevin breathed a sigh of relief and carefully helped me up from the ground.

“Bad baby, you are making trouble for your mother as soon as you come, you annoying person. Wait until you come out and see how your father will deal with you. By the way, Maisie, do you like boys or girls? I hope it’s a girl and I hope she looks like you.”

There was nothing wrong with this sentence itself, but after what happened just now, I unconsciously derived other meanings from this sentence.

“Why do you want a girl? Hasn’t your family always wanted a son to inherit the Warner Group?”

Kevin was stunned, then gently stroked the back of my hand.

“Both sons and daughters are fine. As long as they are our children, I like them all.”

I lowered my eyes, not wanting to see the tenderness in his eyes anymore.

That made me feel sick.

Kevin didn’t see that something was wrong with me, his eyes fell on my still flat belly.

“I have an appointment for a checkup tomorrow. We have been waiting for the baby for so long, there must be no mistakes.”

If I hadn’t just heard his conversation with the secretary and received a message from Regina, I would have believed 100% that what he said was true.

But now, I really wanted to question him.

Was this child really the one he had been waiting for for a long time?

Did he want a daughter because he already had a son?

I resisted the soreness in my eyes and nodded at him.

“Go to sleep, Kevin. I’m a little tired.”

***

Early the next morning, Kevin and I were packing up to go out and the text message alert sounded again. It was from Regina.

[Do you think your child is more important, or my child?]

As soon as I finished reading this message, Kevin’s phone rang.

He waved at me and went to the balcony to answer the phone.

After a while, Kevin walked up to me with an apologetic look on his face and gently held my hand.

“Maisie, there is an emergency in the company and I have to rush over now. Don’t worry, the driver is downstairs. He will take you to the hospital safely and I have arranged for the doctor. You can go directly.”

After saying this, Kevin didn’t even wait for my answer. He grabbed the coat on the sofa and was about to go out.

I closed my eyes, trying to hold back the tears that were about to burst out.

When I opened my eyes again, Kevin had already opened the door.

I reached out and touched my lower abdomen, wanting to give him and the child in my belly another chance.

“Kevin, are you really leaving? Can you stay?”

Kevin paused, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes, but after a moment, he still smiled and spoke to me.

“Maisie, I will finish my work as soon as possible and come back to accompany you, just listen.”

The dull sound of the door closing rang out, my hands kept rubbing my lower abdomen and tears finally fell down in big drops.

The driver took me to the hospital on time and I completed all the examinations under the doctor’s arrangement.

Kevin had already told the driver and the doctor in advance that if he didn’t come, Kevin would be suspicious.

I sat on the bench in the hospital and looked down at the color ultrasound report carefully.

In the black and white picture, there was a small circle the size of a peanut. The doctor said that it was my child.

As I was watching, the text message alert rang again.

[Look, I just need to tell him that the child is crying for his father and he will put down all important things and run to me.]

I clicked on the picture that was sent together.

The little boy was sitting in a blue dining chair. Kevin was feeding him breakfast attentively, his eyes full of pampering and tenderness. The little boy was also laughing, his little mouth was full, looking very cute.

Chapter 3

I had imagined this scene countless times, but I didn’t expect to see it this way.

In fact, I could have blocked Regina, but I just wanted to read her messages again and again like a masochist to remind myself what kind of lies I had lived in the past five years.

I wiped my tears and made an appointment with another hospital.

This was the private hospital of the Warner Family. If I had the operation here, Kevin would know.

I called the driver and told him that I was going shopping and asked him to go back by himself.

Until the driver drove the car and disappeared from my sight, I walked out of the corner and stopped a taxi to rush to another hospital.

Before entering the operating room, Regina sent me a message again, but the difference was that this time it was a video.

The video lasted for an hour. Kevin in the video was overwhelmed with emotions and there were many small toys scattered on the bed.

I had never seen Kevin look so out of control.

In the five years of marriage, Kevin had always been gentle. Even in bed, he was cautious for fear of hurting me.

It turned out that he was not born to be self-sustaining, but the person who could ignite his passion had never been me.

I kept watching the video as if I was self-torturing, wanting to see Kevin whom I had never seen before.

I didn’t know how long it took before the nurse came to my side.

“Miss Rodriquez, are you okay? It’s time for you to go to the operating room.”

It turned out that as the video was gradually played, I cried more and more.

And now, I was trembling all over with tears and even the fingers holding the phone were shaking involuntarily.

It was not until now that I shamefully discovered that I still loved Kevin.

He was not an item that could be thrown away if it was broken and he was not an ordinary friend who could be broken off at worst.

He was a living person, my husband, who I had been married to for five years. Loving him had become an instinct that had penetrated my bones and blood for five years.

In these five years, everyone said that he loved me as much as his life, but hadn’t I treated him the same way? I couldn’t bear to accompany him day and night for five years, I really couldn’t bear to leave him.

Thinking of the child who was only the size of a peanut on the ultrasound report, I took a deep breath and wiped away my tears, wanting to give Kevin one last chance.

I called Kevin.

“Kevin, are you done? I’m done with the examination, can you come back?”

Kevin’s voice was indescribably hoarse, as if he was holding back something.

“Maisie, I have something else to do here. You ask the driver to take you home first…”

“Um…”

A muffled groan sounded, the phone was hung up and only the mechanical “beep” sound remained.

After a long pause, I looked up at the nurse waiting beside me.

“It’s okay, you can have the operation.”

It was dark when I got home after the operation. As soon as I opened the door, Kevin came to meet me.

“The driver said you didn’t go home after the examination. Didn’t you say you went shopping? Why didn’t you buy anything…”

Halfway through the conversation, Kevin noticed my red and swollen eyes.

“What’s wrong, Maisie? Have you cried? Why are your eyes so swollen? Tell me what happened.”

I looked at his eyebrows and eyes carefully. They were really beautiful, as beautiful as before and my reflection was full in his eyes.

As beautiful as the eyebrows and eyes in the afternoon video.

I lowered my eyes and avoided his worried eyes.

“It’s okay, maybe it’s because I’m pregnant. My mood is a little unstable. Kevin, I miss my brother. I want to see him. My brother said he would send a plane to pick me up tonight.”

Chapter 4

Kevin’s shoulders sank and he seemed to be relieved. He took my hand and led me to the sofa.

“It’s okay. I’ve done my homework. It’s normal for pregnant women to have unstable emotions due to the influence of progesterone levels. Don’t worry. Okay, it’s good to go see your brother. You two haven’t seen each other for a long time. My little crybaby, you’re going to be a mother and you still miss your brother. You go first. I’ll come to you after I finish my work these days. I’ll have fun with you for a while.”

Listening to Kevin’s concerned words, my heart sank again and again.

Done his homework, he said?

But I didn’t want to worry about these things anymore. I didn’t know if it was because I just had surgery. My lower abdomen was tight and now I just wanted to rest.

“Kevin, I’m tired. I want to rest.”

I seemed to be really tired. I slept until noon. Unexpectedly, Kevin was still at home.

Seeing me wake up, Kevin hugged me in his arms.

“It seems that what others say about pregnant women’s sleepiness is true. Look at my little lazy pig, who has just woken up. Get up and eat something. There is a cocktail party in the afternoon. Let’s go together.”

I calculated the time. The plane sent by my brother to pick me up would arrive in the evening, so there was still time.

In order not to arouse Kevin’s suspicion and to ensure that the plan would not go wrong, I nodded to Kevin.

As soon as we arrived at the banquet hall, we both became the focus of the whole audience, as expected.

“I really envy Mrs. Warner. Look at Mr. Warner. He has been married for so many years and still treats Mrs. Warner like she is fragile.”

“That’s right. Look, he takes Mrs. Warner with him no matter what occasion, for fear that Mrs. Warner will be snatched away by others.”

Kevin accepted everyone’s compliments with a smile on his face and seemed to be very happy with everyone’s words.

In the midst of harmony, a sticky voice broke the situation.

“I heard that Mrs. Warner is pregnant. Why is she still coming to this kind of cocktail party?”

“Is she afraid that she can’t control her man and that Mr. Warner will be snatched away by someone else?”

The person who came was Regina and everyone heard the gunpowder in her words. After all, Regina liked Kevin at the beginning and everyone in the circle knew it.

“What does she mean by this? Mr. Warner can be snatched away by someone else? Who is someone else? She won’t say herself, right?”

“It’s ridiculous. At the beginning, she was shameless and pestered Mr. Warner and Mr. Warner went bankrupt in anger. She actually dared to speak here. Everyone knows that Mr. Warner hates these beautiful women outside the most.”

“Look at Mr. Warner’s face, I am about to mourn for Regina.”

I ignored what others said and I didn’t pay attention to Kevin’s gloomy face. I took a glass of red wine from the tray of the waiter beside me.

“How did Miss Jenkins know that I was pregnant? We shouldn’t have announced this to the public yet, right?”

When I said this, Kevin was stunned and he looked at Regina with eyes that wanted to eat her.

A trace of panic flashed in Regina’s eyes.

“I went to Warner Hospital for a physical examination this morning and I just heard about it. Didn’t you go for a prenatal checkup yesterday…”

Before she finished her words, I suddenly poured all the red wine in my hand on her face.

“Let’s just assume that what you said is true. I am indeed pregnant and can’t drink. Then Miss Jenkins, drink more.”

The red wine splashed all over Regina’s head and face. The bright red wine dripped along her hair and kept flowing down her satin dress.