Although she was bothered by her divorce case with Tim at that time, she didn’t lose too much weight
as she is now. But now she looks skinny as if she has suffered a lot.
“Don’t cry. It’s all my fault. Please don’t cry.” Lily can’t bear to see Abby to be sad like this and gently
pats her back to console her.
Abby wipes away her tears and clams herself down before turning around. She knows that Lily must be
sadder than her and can’t blame her anymore, “You haven’t contacted me for a long time. Do you know
I am worrying about you? If this happen again, I will break with you. People make friends in case that
their friends can do them a favor at the critical moment, but you are different; you try all the means to
alienate me when you are in troubles.”
Abby is clear that Lily did that to prevent her involvement. But it is just this recognition makes her more
afflictive.
She always bears all silently. Her stubbornness makes her feel distressed.
Lily raises her hand to wipe away Abby’s tears, and then shifts her gaze to the police officer aside,
“Can you please go out for a while. I want to talk with Abby alone.”
“All right, I will wait outside. Call me if needed.”
“Thank you.”
After the young police office walks out, Lily holds the hand of Abby and takes her to have a seat. The
whole room is under surveillance, so it is inconvenient for them to do something. Luckily, the two have
a relatively tacit understanding. When they were walking towards the chair, Abby has handed the test
stick to Lily through her sleeve. Since they stood closely to each other, when she raised her hand, there
would be an out-of-sight corner around her sleeve, which could not be caught by the surveillance.
They sit down. Abby looks at Lily with a distressed and complicated expression, “What happened?”
Lily ponders for a moment and then shakes her head, “Too many things have happened recently. I
cannot tell them in detail to you with one or two sentences. But I am sure about my innocence.”
She doesn’t care about how others would think of her. What she cares about is the attitude of her
relatives and friends. She just doesn’t want to let them down.
“Rex is now fighting for you. With his capability, he will probably prove your innocence.” Abby hasn’t
known Rex’s plan. She just knew from the newspaper that Rex had become Lily’s attorney.
Lily opens her mouth, wanting to say something but finally swallowing all the words. She gives her a
bitter smile, “I hope so.”
“Did Rex know this?” Abby asks this obscure question with her gaze falling on Lily’s belly.
“What’s the possibility?”
“I don’t know.” Thinking of the possibility of being pregnant, Lily’s face gets paler, “I hope it won’t be the
case.”
“If that’s the case, why don’t you tell Rex? How can you deal with it alone?” Anyway, although the
police officers take good care of Lily, she is in a police station with difficult living conditions. If she is
really pregnant, it is obvious that she can’t go through it.
No one knows what Lily is thinking at this moment. Her eyes glimmer, “I have my own plan. Just don’t
tell anyone.”
Looking at her friend who stands by her side, Abby feels that she can’t understand her for the first time.
But her change makes sense. She has suffered a lot recently, which has made her more mature
overnight. But such kind of “mature” is very cruel.
“Well, now that you don’t want me to disclose it, I won’t tell one. Lily, I am always on your side.” Failing
to hold back her worries for Lily anymore, Abby leans forward and whispers in her ear, “But you should
promise me that no accident will happen. You are my bosom friend. I don’t want to see you having any
accident…”
Lily is moved when she hears her words. Her eyes turn red, “I will be okay.”
The more they talk about this, the more sorrowful she is. She is also not sure now. What she knows is
that things begin to progress towards the direction she doesn’t want. And these test sticks in her pocket
will become the key to everything.
"Lily, are you really okay? Just say it out when you need me." Abby holds her cold hand. She is no
doubt her good friend; she can sense that she is not in a good condition easily.
Lily ponders for a while and says, "Abby, we have known each other for so long, I have never liked to
trouble others, but today I do want to ask you..."
Abby waves her hand to interrupt her, "We are good friends, don’t waste time on preliminaries, you can
just speak up."
Lily wears a serious expression, takes a long breath and exhales slowly, and then says in a serious
tone, "Can you please take care of my parents? They are old. My dad… values his reputation very
much. Since the accident, I haven’t contacted them and only asked the police officer to send them a
message for me. If you have time, can you please visit them? Tell them not to worry about me. And,
please... also take care of them in the future.”
Abby listens to her carefully. For the first few sentences, she felt that there is nothing wrong. But as Lily
continued, she felt weird. Her heart trembles and her eyebrows wrinkle, “Lily, what do you mean by
saying these? Why am I feeling that you were giving me your last words…”
Lily squeezes her hands under the table, but she still keeps the clam expression on her face. She even
raises the corners of her lips, "Why? You think too much. Maybe it’s because I haven’t contacted my
parents for a long time that I feel guilty.”
She said these words in a relatively relaxed tone. Abby looks over at her and eliminates the doubts in
her heard when recalling that Rex is taking over Lily’s case.
“Don’t worry. I will take good care of your parents. I will visit and console them when I have time.”
Lily feels grateful, "Thank you, sincerely, Abby."
The two talk for a while. It is late now. In addition, Abby did not go through the necessary procedures
before her visitation. Although the police office made an exception for her, it is inappropriate to stay
here for too long.
Abby is so reluctant to leave and keeps looking back to steal a glance at Lily when she is walking
towards the door. Fearing that she herself may not be able to bear the separation, Lily turns around
and forces herself not to look back.
The door behind is closed again. When the room is again overwhelmed by silence and when she
cannot sense Abby’s gaze anymore, Lily finally turns around. As usual, she reads book for around ten
or twenty minutes and then stands up, heading towards the bathroom.
Only this bathroom is not under surveillance, from where she can find herself a private space.
Although she walks steadily, when she closes the door of this narrow space, she breathes a sigh of
relief with her back leaning against the wall and her palms breaking out in cold sweats.
With her fair and thin fingers trembling, she takes out the test sticks from the pocket, takes off her
pants, and sits down on the toilet. She feels complicated as if hundreds of thousands of ants are
crawling in her heart and gnawing it.
Worries, fear, anxiety, restlessness…
All these negative emotions are not enough to describe her current mood. It is a long and unbearable
wait. Although it is just a few minutes, she feels like going through half a century.
Counting the due time in heart, she takes out the test stick while her gaze is fixed on the ceiling.
She dares not to check the result. Her hand that is holding the test stick is trembling.
“Hiss…Huff…” She takes several deep breathes, her forehead breaking out in sweats. She feels cold in
heart, but her body is a little hot. The alternate of coldness and heat makes her feel torturing and
unbearable.
No. She must check the result; she must face it.
Lily grits her teeth and closes her eyes. Then she holds the stick up to her eyes and steals a glance at
it. When she sees the result, her mind suddenly goes blank…
Sweats quickly soak the clothes on her back. She even feels breathless as if she is lack of oxygen.
She is pregnant at this extremely critical time when she is entangled in a murder
case.
crawling in her heart and gnawing it.
Worries, fear, anxiety, restlessness...
All these negative emotions are not enough to describe her current mood. It is a long and unbearable
wait. Although it is just a few minutes, she feels like going through half a century.
Counting the due time in heart, she takes out the test stick while her gaze is fixed on the ceiling.
She dares not to check the result. Her hand that is holding the test stick is trembling.
“Hiss...Huff...” She takes several deep breathes, her forehead breaking out in sweats. She feels cold in
heart, but her body is a little hot. The alternate of coldness and heat makes her feel torturing and
unbearable.
No. She must check the result; she must face it.
Lily grits her teeth and closes her eyes. Then she holds the stick up to her eyes and steals a glance at
it. When she sees the result, her mind suddenly goes blank...
Sweats quickly soak the clothes on her back. She even feels breathless as if she is lack of oxygen.
She is pregnant at this extremely critical time when she is entangled in a murder
case.
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