Alan touched her little head. "You're so clever."
"Yeah, yeah!" Annie danced and cheered.
The news that Olive was pregnant has exploded at the Steele family.
"Is it true or false?" Chloe came up to look at her flat stomach and even held out her hand to touch it.
Olive's parents looked surprised, and then they looked happy as if they had just won a million dollars.
"You may as well have another child, as Annie will have a companion."
After the joy, Annie suddenly remembered something. "But Dad, didn't you say you didn't want Mommy
to have to work hard to give birth to my baby brother or my baby sister? So why is Mommy pregnant
again?"
The question the family wanted to ask was asked by Annie, so everyone looked at Alan, waiting for his
answer.
"Your Mommy was disobedient, as she stole a baby from your Dad, so do you think I should spank
her?" When Alan talked about this, he also felt a little helpless.
Annie nodded like a grown-up. "Mommy deserves to be spanked by you, but Dad, are you willing to
spanking Mommy?"
What Annie said choked Alan, but it delighted the whole family.
Olive joined in, raising an eyebrow defiantly. "Yeah, are you willing to spank me?"
Of course, Alan couldn't bear to spank or scold Olive, so finally, he could only use his fingers to knock
on her forehead helplessly. "I'll settle with you later."
Olive playfully stuck her tongue out at him, and then she grimaced because she's not afraid of what he
said.
Olive's mother rushed to buy a lot of vegetables and meat, and then she made a lot of good dishes to
fill the table.
Olive's bowl was overflowing, but someone kept pouring food into her bowl with chopsticks.
"Enough, enough." She was too busy trying to refuse, and when she couldn't refuse, she sent the bowl
under the table, because if they put any more food in her bowl, she would eat too much even now that
she was pregnant. "Please, don't be so nervous, because it's not my first pregnancy."
"When you were pregnant with Annie, your Dad was in the hospital, so you had to work day and night
to support the family. I didn't take good care of you, while I made you suffer..."
Olive's mother felt a pang of pain at the mention of the past, and Alan was guilty of what she had said,
as he still felt the throbbing of guilt at his heart.
"Mom, let bygones be bygones, and aren't we all right now?" Olive interrupted her mother. In the past,
the conditions were so bad, but she was able to give birth to Annie, while now everything was OK, and
the baby's father has been accompanied by her side, so they really didn't have to be so nervous.
She could see the care and anticipation of her family for her new baby.
In the evening, while Alan was playing chess with Olive's father, Olive's mother came to Olive's room.
Although her son-in-law was kind to her daughter, Mrs. Hoyle refused to accept Olive. Now that the
wedding was just around the corner, Olive's mother was a little worried about something going wrong.
"When you went to Jiangcheng to take photos, did you visit your mother-in-law? Did she treat you
better?"
Olive sat down on the bed with her mother. "Mom, I was just going to tell you about this."
"What's the matter?" According to Olive's mother's intuition, this didn't seem like a good thing. "She still
won't accept you?"
"It's not as if she accepted me, but she accepted the baby I'm carrying now." Olive told her mother
exactly what had happened in Jiangcheng, including Annie's name change and her appointment with
Mrs. Hoyle.
"Do you want this baby because you want Annie to stay with the Steele family?"
If only for that matter, Olive wouldn't have to do this. Although they really wanted to keep Annie in the
Steele family, they were willing to give up this formality for the happiness of their daughter in the future.
This formality didn't matter that much, because as long as they could see Annie often and see her
growing up happily, it didn't matter to them whether Annie shared their last name or not.
Olive shook her head. "Annie is staying with the Steele family, and it's something we've agreed to for a
long time, so that's not going to change. I had already planned to have another child before this
happened, so my appointment with Mrs. Hoyle was pushing the boat with the current, but it really
worked. Although I still don't get along very well with Mrs. Hoyle, on the whole, her opinion of me has
changed. Actually, Mom, the one thing I want to tell you is that Mrs. Hoyle will come to Luo City for a
few days because of the baby, so if that's possible..."
Before she could finish her words, Chloe burst in. "Mrs. Hoyle, the old witch, will come to Luo City?
What is she doing here? She doesn't even accept you, but she has the gall to fight for your baby. She's
really thick-skinned, and at the same time, she's really mean."
"Keep your voice down, as Alan is still outside." Olive's mother reminded Chloe to keep her tongue in
her mouth. Mrs. Hoyle was a pain in the ass, but Alan was innocent, while they were so pleased with
Alan as a son-in-law that they couldn't find fault with him.
It's just that nothing was perfect and there were always some defects to be regretted.
Chloe snorted coldly. "I don't care about him, because he can't persuade his mother. Olive, you don't
want Mrs. Hoyle, the old witch, to torment you every day, right?"
Olive laughed. "This is not as bad as you say, as I just want to make peace with her."
Chloe scoffed. "I doubt not that you wish to be at peace with her; but if she wished to be at peace with
you, it would be a day of red rain, and the sun would have to rise in the west."
Mrs. Hoyle, the old witch, was very high-minded. Mrs. Hoyle thought she was honorable, so she
despised poor people like them.
"The sun cannot rise in the west, but it is not out of the question if one wishes to have some change."
Olive had a less pessimistic view, as she felt that while there were accidents in life, there were also
pleasant surprises.
"She has been so wicked to you, so why should you be so kind in return? Good intentions go
unrewarded, so you might as well save the effort." Chloe felt that if she were Olive, she'd be merciful if
she didn't get Mrs. Hoyle, the old witch, into the hospital.
It's just that vengeance had a way of rebounding upon oneself, and Olive didn't want to be deadlocked
with Mrs. Hoyle, so she patted Chloe on the shoulder, smiled, and said. "Don't forget, if you want to be
with Aoba in the future, you're going to have to deal with Mrs. Hoyle, and it is better to be on good
terms with her than on bad terms with her."
Chloe pursed her lips with disdain. "It's not that I want to be hostile to her, but that she doesn't want to
be friendly with me. Even if I choose not to marry, I will not allow myself to be humiliated and be
despised again."
Although the life experience made
Chloe no longer just choose to submit to humiliation, Chloe also thought that she wasn't a
troublemaker. If someone was nice to her, she was willing to be nice to someone in return. But if
someone has been treating her with disdain, she couldn't show excessive passion to someone cold.
Chloe's life in the Lynn family taught Chloe a lesson, while that was: you couldn't live if you sinned.
Olive's mother and Olive understood her feelings, and it was not easy for them to persuade her,
because if they stand in her shoes, she's not wrong. People learned to protect themselves more after
being hurt, and this was a kind of instinct.
As for all this talk about Mrs. Hoyle, they couldn't go on.
Coincidentally, Olive's father and Alan have also finished playing chess, as they both came in laughing.
Olive's father looked radiant even when he lost at chess.
"I'm old, so my thinking can't keep up with young people like you. Ivy was here playing chess with me
the other day, and I was badly beaten at chess with him, too."
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