People should see that she liked Brian, but Brian, because all his attention was on Wendy.
"Yes, I'm in love with him."
Winnie did not hide, because Leo would give up on her only when she said that out.
Although Leo had guessed, hearing that Winnie admitted it, he still felt depressed, feeling hopeless,
feeling abandoned by the woman he loved the most.
"Does he love you?"
Leo continued to ask with an injured heart.
This time Winnie still did not show the dilemma, but a bitter smile.
"He doesn't love me."
Winnie had unrequited love just as Leo, so Leo could feel how she felt.
He did not ask any more questions. There was a silence in the room.
"Winwin, he doesn't love you. You should know that nothing will ever come to you, it is not late to give
up. Leave, lest Penny keep an eye on you."
Leo did not want her to be framed by Penny.
Winnie sighed, not knowing how to let Leo not worry, how to let him give up her completely to find his
own happiness.
After thinking for a while, she told him the truth.
"Leo, there is something I want to tell you. That's why I have to stay with Brian."
Winnie paused and continued.
"Remember our last phone call? I was with a man at that time. If you hadn't said those hurtful words, I
would never have met Brian, and everything afterwards would never have happened."
“What do you mean?”
Leo was puzzled. What was that man related to Brian? Didn't they just meet this year?
"The man was Brian. I badly needed money. My mother and sister were in hospital..."
With tears, Winnie told him the difficulties she encountered in those years, as well as the surrogacy and
that Penny abused Luke.
Every time she thought of it, Winnie felt like she had been skinned.
Leo was shocked and could not believe it was true. Winnie did not find any rich man, but for the sake of
her sister and mother's life, had surrogate pregnancy.
Now Leo felt that he was a bastard. All this was caused by him. Winnie's fate was changed by him.
At that time, if he helped Winnie, she would not have gone to surrogacy, she would not have met Brian,
and she would not have encountered what was happening right now.
"Winwin, sorry, I am sorry. You must be helpless, but I did not help you."
Leo was guilty about that. He had destroyed a woman's happiness, his believed woman. How could he
not blame himself?
"Winwin, so two children are Brian's, and you stay with him for Luke?"
Leo finally understood why Winnie was so concerned about Luke, also understood why Luke was so
dependent on Winnie. They were blood related.
"Yes. Luke is my child. He is too poor, I can't leave him alone."
Winnie's mood calmed a little.
"Does Brian not know about these things?"
Leo continued to ask.
"No, and I don't want him to know. I just want him to separate from Penny so that Luke can grow up in
a good environment. As for me and him, it's impossible."
After Winnie said these things out, she felt relieved.
"Winwin I don't think this is fair to the child. Luke has the right to know who his mother is, and Megan
has the right to know who her father is. Why don't you lay the matter straight and try to get custody of
the two children?"
Leo felt this matter was impossible to be concealed for a lifetime. If it was concealed, two children
would become victims...
Since it could not be concealed, it would be better to solve the problem earlier. Winnie and Brian would
live their own lives and be well. And they would have lives as easy as normal people.
"It seems that things are not so simple. At the beginning, Brian wanted a boy to consolidate his
position. He could not easily give the child to me. I have learned the law, I have no condition as good
as his, I can’t have the custody of Luke. Maybe he will take away Megan, it will be worse."
Winnie had been careful because she was afraid of losing the custody of two children. She did not
expect Luke to call her Mommy, or give Megan a father. She just wanted to keep the two children
silently for a lifetime.
"It is reasonable, after all his strength is strong."
Leo did not think of this problem, but also underestimated the position of Luke in the heart of Brian. But
he felt that she should make it clear, Brian was not necessarily that bad.
"I am so now, Luke stays with me for one day, I will take good care of him for a day. If he will come
back to Brian’s home, Brian will not be so cruel to let me cut off contact with the children. I will be
satisfied to have a lot of opportunities to get along with him."
"You don't have to worry about me. If Penny is separated from Brian, there won't be any storm and any
threat to me. I'll be good in the future."
Winnie knew Leo had been guilty for her, and wanted to make him relieved, but if he liked her, he would
be guilty for a lifetime.
"Leo, the past has long passed. Never say sorry to me again. You have done nothing wrong, everything
is the fate. We can only accept the reality."
“Find a girlfriend. I will stay in this city. If we get along as friends, we will be good friends for life. If you
are always guilty for me, I must stay away from you, so that you will not blame yourself when you see
me."
Winnie put the words tactfully, not wanting Leo to be embarrassed.
"Winwin, I know what you mean. Don't worry, I'll be with you as a friend."
Leo's mood was low.
In fact, Leo was pleased to hear that Luke was Winnie’s child.
Luke was an obstacle to Leo. Since he was the child of Winnie like Megan, he could accept it.
He had his intention to ask Winnie to make everything clear and fight for custody, so that Winnie and
Brian could be separated, so that he could have an opportunity.
He did not care that Winnie had children, not to mention two, he could accept four.
But before he said that, Winnie stopped that.
At the moment he had no choice but to respect Winnie.
Leo was worried about Winnie and stayed in the hospital for the night. When Winnie fell asleep, he
went to the sofa and lay down for a while. When he was tired, he got up and went to the bed to look at
Winnie.
In doing so, Leo almost was sleepless.
Penny had a bad sleep for several days. She was worried about what would happen to Daniel while
thinking about what Brian said.
She was not sure if he had known something, so he wanted to have a paternity test after she gave birth
to the child? Once that happened, she would be screwed.
Penny didn't know what to do. He had to call Richard.
Penny, now suffering from morning sickness, went to the bathroom to vomit and came back to lie in
bed before calling Richard.
"Dad, how is going with Daniel?"
Asked Penny.
"Don't worry about that."
Richard replied impatiently.
"Dad, hurry up. I'm always afraid that if they find it out, my plans won't work and the child and I will be
abandoned."
Penny told the story of the child.
"Child, are you pregnant?"
Richard was visibly excited.
"Yes, pregnant."
"Does Brian know?"
Richard's impatient face lit up at once.
"Yes, I told him, and he said let me give birth to it."
Penny said in a low voice. She was afraid that her father would scold her after learning the truth. But
now she could not solve this situation on her own, so she had to turn to her father.
"Good, you set your mind to raise the fetus. I will think of way these two days."
Richard planed to advance the plan. Only Daniel disappeared, this matter could be completely put to
rest. After this thing was over, everything would be fine.
"But..."
Penny looked awkward.
“But what?”
Richard asked.
"Brian said a paternity test is needed after I give birth to this child. If it is his child, he will be
responsible, but if it is not, I will be screwed."
"What does this mean? Why does he suspect the child?"
Richard had a bad feeling that things were not as simple as he thought.
"The baby is really not Brian's, but Daniel's."
Penny said this with her eyes closed. She bet if Richard were with her right now, she would be killed.
"What did you say, Penny?"
Richard was furious. He did not expect that Penny would do such a thing. How honorable Brian was,
how could he allow such a thing to happen? If he had known, he would kill Penny.
"I don't want to, but you always urge me to have a child. Brian didn’t touch me at all. How can I have a
child?"
Penny said sadly, not because of her father's great anger, but because Brian did not love her after four
years being together.
"Did not touch you? Don't you sleep together? He did not touch you, and you said it was his child?"
Richard was now in a complete mess and couldn't understand the whole story.
"For the last two months I put sleeping pills in his water, but it look like he was sleeping like a rock and
nothing happened to us."
Penny told the truth, but she did not expect that her words would soon be known by Brian.
"What's wrong with your head? What can he do after having sleeping pills?"
Richard angrily scolded her. If Penny was not a girl, he would have made the words even worse.
"I didn't have time to prepare for anything else. It was not easy to find such an
opportunity."
"For the last two months | put sleeping pills in his water, but it look like he was sleeping like a rock and
nothing happened to us."
Penny told the truth, but she did not expect that her words would soon be known by Brian.
"What's wrong with your head? What can he do after having sleeping pills?"
Richard angrily scolded her. If Penny was not a girl, he would have made the words even worse.
"| didn't have time to prepare for anything else. It was not easy to find such an
opportunity."
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