Lily pulls open the door to the passenger seat and gets inside. She sees that the man is smoking right
now, he is almost halfway through. When he sees her getting into the car, he immediately puts out the
cigarette and opens the sunroof to let the smell disperse.
Lily suddenly feels a torrent of emotions tugging at her heart. She hates that every of his little actions
and gazes is able to cause a swirl in her heart.
The night breeze keeps sweeping by, and the slight fragrance on the woman’s body steadily wafts up
to his nose. He has notice this unique smell some time ago, but he was merely supressing his desire
since their child was around.
Now that Adair is gone, there is a spark igniting the man’s eyes. He looks at her earnestly and says,
“You’re not letting me go. What are you going to do?”
These words are simple and easy to understand, but through his mouth, they seem to wear a deeper
meaning.
Lily feels a bit hot at the moment, she is afraid that she will reveal her true colours in from of him, so
she tries to put on a façade and replies, “I want to talk to you about the child.”
After hearing these words, Rex is obviously stunned, but he recovers instantly as he smirks
sarcastically. “Aren’t you always been avoiding this topic and insisting that he is not my child?”
There are signs of sarcasm all over his words, and Lily can sense it fine. She grits her teeth hard, “You
are right, I have been trying to hide this from you.”
But at this stage, she is not going to hide anything anymore. She generously admits herself, “But that
doesn’t seem to work, you are more persistent that I have imagined.”
“Persistent?” Rex looks as if he has heard something funny, but he immediately vanquishes his smile
and put on a serious look. “He’s my child. Do you think that I’m a pushover? That I will see my son
calling other men ‘dad’?”
Lily looks at him in disbelief, fury, resent and confusion. She is the type of person who can accept a
nice attitude but not harsh forceful treatment. If someone is being hard on her, she will in turn do the
same. Five years of living alone in a foreign country has taught her that, a determined and steely heart
has already formed underneath her innocent and gentle appearance. When she hears that he’s
throwing sarcasm at her, she immediately wants to get out of his car.
With a loud sound, the car locks are in place. No matter how hard she’s fumbling with the door knob, it
is useless.
When Lily turns around and wants to question his intentions, suddenly a large force lifts her out of her
seat, as she stares at the two strong palms pinching her waist and seeing she herself sitting on his
thighs.
The strong and muscular legs are just beneath her butts, and Lily feels a burning sensation coming
from her skin which is touching him. She screams frantically. “Rex, what are you doing? Let me go!”
She is struggling mightily, her body twisting and distorting without rest. Rex initially doesn’t think much
of his actions, but now he’s provoked by her movements. Before he can say anything, he sees that her
waist is pushed against the steering wheel, so he immediately adjusts his seat backwards as he
shouts, “Don’t move!”
“Put me down!” Lily is pushing and hammering him now, but her all-out resistance doesn’t change the
situation in her favour. She wails, “I’m just asking you to stay, not to be frivolous with me!”
“Frivolous with you?” He continued pinning her in place and increases his strength to hug her harder.
His brows are in a knit as he says, “If hugging you like this means being frivolous with you, then five
years ago I was already doing that…”
“Don’t bring up things that happened five years ago, I’m talking about now!” Lily is determined not to let
him bring up the past, as those memories are sealed for too long. She always thought that she has
forgotten about everything, but at his mere words, she can vividly recall those memories as a series of
images in her mind as if they just happened yesterday. All she has been doing is lying to she herself.
She just doesn’t want to face all of these.
Her eyes begin to redden, and Rex is not planning to bully her and make her sad anyway. He gradually
loosens his grip and his tone becomes gentler, “Don’t move around, I’m just going to hug you like this,
that’s all.”
“Five years ago, you had let me down. And now you appear out of nowhere and is forcing me to go
along with you again, what right do you have to do that? How can you do that?” Lily is now shrieking
madly.
“Because we can’t forget each other, this is because our feelings are still there.”
“No, it’s all gone; my feelings were all gone long time ago. Five years ago, you let Marina off the hook
and decided that I have to admit guilty, where was your feelings back then?” To be honest, this is
always a chasm that Lily is not able to overcome, and with the tide of the time sweeping them forward,
the pain still can’t be forgotten, and instead it has morphed into a scar, a scar that deepens with time.
Rex reminisces about the past as he feels hurt by her words. He still has a guilty conscious as never
once did he forget about all the pain and suffering he had caused her. “If we don’t love each other, you
won’t give birth to that child.”
How much love does it take to give birth to that child under all that circumstances?
Lily shakes her head, but she can’t say anything in response to him. She knows that once the word
about her child has gotten out, a lot of things will unearth themselves.
When she thinks of Adair, her messy heart finally remembers what she is planning to tell him here,
“About Adair, I have something to tell you.”
The man nods, “Go ahead.”
“I know you’re very excited that you can see your child, and you want to be with him as much as
possible. But after all, Little Adair does not have a father since he was born, if you appear in front of
him too much, this sensitive kid will sense that something is wrong. I hope today is the last time you are
behaving like this.” Her words are crystal clear and straight to the point. “Another thing, I am very
serious about his education, I hope you won’t intervene on that.”
“Intervene?” Rex initially wants to have a smooth conversation with her, but he can’t suppress his anger
when he heard the last word. “Lily, is that child only yours alone? Although the child doesn’t know of my
existence for now, I’m still his father. Without me, how could that child be born?”
Lily is looking pale after listening to his words. His face looks tensed as she replies, “Other than
providing the sperm, what have you done? And now you want to come back to us shamelessly, and
want the child to see you as his father, let alone me, do you think Adair can accept that?”
“I am not in a hurry to let him accept me; I just want to accompany him. This is my right. Five years
ago, I never wanted to abandon you, you are the one who made that happen and snatched away my
chance to be with him. Have you ever considered my feelings? You only thought that I am
irresponsible, hmm?” The man’s tone becomes sharp like a knife, and he places his palm on the left of
her chest. “Lily, ask yourself honestly, do I still have a place in your heart? Do you really not want me to
spend time with the child? How long are you going to deceive yourself?”
Lily can only feel that his palm that is on her is like an X-ray that penetrates into the depths of her heart,
and reveals the secret that she has been trying to hide. She sweeps away then man’s palm, her voice
agitated, “I have made a mistake five years ago, and now I will never trust anybody anymore. The child
is mine, don’t ever think to take him away from me!”
Rex sees that she’s pushing him further and further away like an impenetrable fortress, he can only
oblige to her, “If I really want to take the child away, do you think you are able to win against me?”
Lily widens her eyes in astonishment; she can’t believe that he’s saying nonsense like this.
An extreme fear starts to circulate in her mind, and she slaps him across the face uncontrollably and
furiously.
“Smack!” The slapping sound is eerily clear as the man’s handsome face tilts towards the side a little,
and a red imprint slowly appears on his left cheek. Lily doesn’t know how hard she has slapped him;
she just feels a pain reverberating on her palm. The slap is not fake.
Her chest rises and falls rapidly, and her mind is being overwhelmed by anger. When she returns to
reality and registers in her mind what she has done, she only begins to feel scared.
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