Mr. Clive was insisting on taking the missus to the hospital to get an abortion. Remy was very understanding, “It’s okay, I can wait.“
“Mr. Johnson, why don’t you wait at the gazebo for now.”
The servant led Remy to the gazebo and apologized profusely for the inconvenience caused.
Remy was a very understanding man, “It’s okay, why don’t you get back to your work.”
He sat down at a stone–carved table under the gazebo and placed the snacks he brought for Elisa on the table.
He did not inquire what was going on inside the house.
Ever since he bought the villa next to the Stones, it gave him an excuse to regularly come over and pay a visit to the Stones. At this point, most of the housemaids in the family recognized and treated him very politely. They would respectfully invite him into the house every time he came around.
This time was the sole outlier where they did not invite him into the house immediately. He figured some sort of emergency must have happened and decided to not be too probing, especially since he was an outsider.
If they would not tell him, he would not ask either.
After all, he was nothing more than a neighbor.
“Mr. Johnson, let me get you a glass of water.”
Although they were not letting him into the house yet, they still made sure to make him feel welcome.
Remy thanked the maid with a bright smile.
The servant stepped out of the gazebo and quickly marched into the house.
Inside the house, Clive’s parents were huddled together on the couch. Mr. Stone was doing what he could to comfort his wife’s restlessness. “Clive is only doing this out of love for Alice, please don’t hold it against him. The boy is not in a rational state of mind right now.”
Serena poured a glass of water for Mrs. Stone.
Liberty and Elisa made Alice sit with them on the couch and remained on guard so Clive could not take her away.
Clive was ruffling his hair irritably.
Did he not want the child?
Of course he did. He wanted nothing more than to have a child with Alice, but her difficult pregnancy and her severe condition were driving him insane. She would throw up everything she ate and had lost pienty of weight since the start of the pregnancy. It was a very stressful experience for him as well.
The way he saw it, his wife’s well–being held priority over the unborn child.
Sonny approached Clive and stared curiously at his uncle. Something flickered in the little man’s eves like stars in the night sky.
“Uncle!” Sonny greeted Clive warmly.
Clive looked at Sonny.
Sonny was a very healthy boy. His skin glowed with a bright red tint underneath and despite his young age, it already seemed like he would grow into a handsome boy. He was adorable and looked like a human–sized doll that stepped out of the storybooks.
Whenever people met him, they were filled with an urge to hug him tightly and shower him with affection.
Clive was not immune to Sonny’s charms either.
He carried Sonny in his arms.
“Uncle, are you feeling sad? Is everything ok?”
Sonny was very sensitive and felt Clive’s restless mood boiling inside him. He wrapped his arms. around Clive’s neck and planted a gentle smooch on his cheeks to comfort him and said innocently, “Mom kisses me whenever I’m feeling sad. It makes me feel better.
“Do you feel better now?”
Clive was completely enamored by Sonny’s innocent display of affection and smiled. He rubbed his cheek against Sonny’s and said lovingly, “Uncle feels better for now.”
How nice it would be if childbirth was simple and effortless. He would like for him and Alice to raise their child without Alice having to go through such a harrowing experience.
If a man could get pregnant, he would be more than willing to bear the pain of pregnancy rather than let Alice suffer.
A housemaid went up to Elisa and whispered something in her ear.
Elisa told the servant something in a hushed voice and sent the maid away. After that, she turned to Alice and told her, “Alice, please don’t hold it against my brother. He’s a little out of it right now, you can see how even my mom is telling him off.”
Alice could not deny that she was rather upset.
She has been married to Clive for years now and the only reason they had pushed off having a child was that Clive was very possessive and wanted her all to himself. To appease him, she had been on the pill the entire time to avoid a pregnancy.
It was to the point where rumors were beginning to surface that she was infertile.
At last, the couple had finally agreed that it was time for a baby.
She was pregnant in no time and was more than ecstatic about the prospect of having a child. Although it was still relatively early, just the fact that there was now a life growing inside her womb, a child who she and Clive could call their own, had brought her great pride. The child was to be the heir to their bloodline.
Her intrinsic maternal love has never felt stronger than the present moment; she regarded the child inside her as more important than her very life.
How could she be expected to abort the child?
Clive had been needlessly harping about taking her to the hospital for an abortion, insisting that they should give up on ever having children and it should just be the two of them forever.
He justified it by saying that he had two brothers and they could bear the responsibility of preserving the bloodline.
Alice was livid.
She initially thought Clive was just rambling, but it turned out that he was serious.
She eventually told Mr. and Mrs. Stone about this, and they were understandably furious to hear of this.
She had not told her parents about this just yet, knowing that they would probably be so enraged that they would barge through the front door to give Clive a beating, “Elisa, your brother went as far as to schedule an appointment with the doctor. How do you expect me to not be upset?”
She vented her frustration to her sister–in–law.
Clive clutched Sonny tightly in his arms a short distance away and said in a hurt voice, “But I can’t stand to see you suffer, so it’s better to call it quits. If you truly like children that much, we can take in Sonny and he can spend time with you every day.”
“Serena, are you listening to all this nonsense this man is spouting?”
Mrs. Stone was completely baffled by such a proposition, she grabbed Serena’s hand and turned to Clive, “Sonny is Liberty’s son, how dare you have the nerve to take the boy away from her?”
Serena hurriedly diffused the situation, “Aunt Audrey, don’t overexert yourself. Let’s just calmly talk to Clive about this. It’s not that he doesn’t want the child, he’s just very worried about Alice.”
She turned to Clive and continued, “Sonny is going to start attending preschool starting September so he won’t be able to spend time with you guys every day. Think about this, Sonny looks very cute, doesn’t he? One day, you and Alice can have a child as cute as him as well.
“A child is a symbol of love and commitment between a married couple, so how could you say no to that?”
Clive scowled.
“But Alice hasn’t stopped throwing up. Just look at how much weight she’s lost! It hurts me to see this, so if it’s going to take so much just to have a child, then I would rather not have a child at all.”
Mrs. Stone was filled with violent rage and immediately began casting her eyes around the room to find something to fling at Clive. She rose sharply and marched to Clive to snatch Sonny from him, then he jabbed a kick at him while shouting, “Pregnancy is hard? Do you think being a mother is any easier?”
“If you don’t want to have a baby, you shouldn’t have gotten Alice pregnant in the first place. Now that she’s pregnant, you have to see it through with her. You can’t just suggest an abortion like it doesn’t mean anything. You’re killing your child! That’s murder!
“You keep talking about how difficult pregnancy is, but do you know how harmful abortion is for a woman? Abortion does more damage to the body than childbirth and she’s at the point of her pregnancy where a medical abortion won’t do. If she’s going to abort the child, she’s going to have to take the surgical route, which is more harmful!”
Clive was speechless.
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