"Mom, don't worry. I'm fine."
Grace was very anxious about her daughter. What she feared most was that her daughter always acted
tough. This daughter had always been sensible. She was afraid that her parents would worry, so she
hid everything in her heart and refused to tell them.
"Riri, don't try to be tough. I know it's hard for you..."
Rita listened to her mother's worry on the phone, but she did not know how to comfort her mother.
"Mom, it happened so suddenly, even I... I can't accept the truth. But you can rest assured that I'm fine.
You don't have to worry about me."
She forced to smile and said to Grace on the other end of the line.
On the other side, Aaron's phone kept ringing. And even Lambert also gave him a call, so Aaron had to
answer the phone.
He walked to the balcony and picked up the phone. There was a roar from the other side of the phone.
Selena seemed to persuade Lambert to let her use his phone to call Aaron.
"What's wrong with you?" Selena sounded rather like an uneducated woman. "You made another
woman pregnant?"
"Yes."
On the other side of the line, Selena sneered, "I have seen the news. That woman looks like a vulgar."
Actually, she was kept in the dark by Nora, and she didn't know that Kaley was arranged by Cary.
"So?"
Aaron said impatiently.
Selena took a deep breath. She thought she might have to take a heart saving pill every time after she
made the phone call with Aaron. Otherwise, she might even die of anger one day.
"Forget it. If she has you baby, that's it. If it is a boy, you can bring him here and I will raise him myself."
"You?" Aaron smiled coldly. "I don't think that's a good idea."
"Or what are you going to do? Are you going to let Rita raise the baby? How could she be kind to the
child of another woman? You know that your father won't accept the child of an outsider woman, even if
it is a boy. I really don't know what kind of personality it is."
"It's good, isn't it," said Aaron in a languid tone. "Otherwise, you might have a lot to suffer. Father's
women would be eager to take their kids move to your house. If that is the case, I would have a lot
brothers and sisters."
Aaron's words really got her goat. She shouted at him, "Enough!"
Then Selena calmed for a while and continued, "Do you know that this child may be very important to
you? Your brother has no boy. Even his outside women all gave birth to girls. If you have a boy, I will
raise him for you. Maybe you can count on him to inherit the Leng family property in the future."
"Well, and then?" Aaron continued to pretend to listen to her words seriously.
"As long as you have a boy, you must be more excellent than Scott in terms of inheriting the family
property."
Selena's words amused Aaron. What age was it now? Did she think it was ancient time? Why did she
keep saying having a boy to inherit everything?
"Listen to your mom, Aaron. Let this woman give birth to the baby. It might be great if the baby is a
boy."
Aaron could not stand to hear this anymore, so he interrupted his mother, "Oh, come on! The Leng
family is not a royal family and we don't have a throne to be inherited."
"Why do you always keep contradicting me?" Selena was pissed off by her own son. "No matter what I
say to you, You never listen! You only listen to Rita. I've been pregnant for ten months to let you come
to this world, and how long has that bitch met you? You are enchanted by her and now you don't have
your own mind to do things. You've gone too far. I really don't understand what I have done to make
you a stranger to me! Why do you do this to me, always pissing me off?"
It never occurred to Selena that her son, whom she had given all his heart to give birth to, would treat
her like this! It hurt her so much!
Aaron was silent for a while, and then said with a tone which was unprecedentedly calm and serious.
"First, you always call Riri bitch. That's my wife and also your daughter-in-law. Second, yes, you
brought me into this world, but have you raised me? You sent me abroad for further study when I was
at a very young age. I was brought up by the servants all the time. Have you ever acted as my mother
for only one day? Do you know what my favorite food is and what I am allergic to? Have you cooked a
meal for me on your own? Everyday you just go shopping, do singing and play mahjong, have you ever
raised a child before? Do you know how people raise a child? Rita, your daughter-in-law and my wife,
she cooked meals for me every day. She always make time to come and pick me up when I'm off work
and she talk to me everyday. She did something for me that you didn't do. How could you blame her?"
Selena was stunned by what he said.
It was not until now that she realized that she had ignored Aaron for so many years.
"If you keep saying that my father likes other women, I'll ask you. Have you ever acted as a wife and a
mother?"
"If not, what right do you have to blame me? What qualifications do you have to blame Riri?"
"Apart from asking me to fight for the Leng property, what else can you do?"
Aaron really wanted to laugh at her now. He didn't know what she could do except for making a noisy
sound.
There was a moment of silence. Selena couldn't find a word to retort to Aaron. She didn't know what to
say. She didn't expect that Aaron would think her as that in his heart. It was true that she wasn't being a
good mother all these years. She had servants at home, so she could just let the servant take care of
her son. She didn't need to worry when Aaron was sent to study abroad. She seemed to have forgotten
how to be a mother. She was also indifferent to her husband. They were just total strangers and she
had forgotten how to be a good wife.
She was this kind of woman. How could she hate Rita? Was the reason for Rita is the daughter of
Grace? Was that the only reason? She never tried to know more about Rita. Rita was so good to her
son, doing what she did not manage to do as a mother. How could she hate Rita?
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