Hearing what Winnie said, Brian was upset. He reached out to hold Winnie’s hand, feeling guilty.
“I am sorry to let you face it alone. If there is next time, I must take good care of you and will not let you
hurt in the heart.”
Winnie looked at Brian with a serious face. Was he feeling sorry for her for the torture she suffered
when she gave birth?
When would “the next time” be? If there was a next time, she would rather be tortured, but it seemed to
be no the next time.
“The kids are so big and it is over. You don’t have to be sorry, it happens to all women.”
“Sit back and rest. I’ll comfort the elderly, they are so worried.”
Winnie got up and left. She did not want to mention the time she gave birth, she felt like being tortured
again.
Daenerys was in good condition. In about 40 minutes a nurse ran out to report good news.
“It is girl. Mother and the baby are doing well.”
Hearing that, people outside the delivery room felt relieved at last and became excited.
“Good, good.”
They could not help saying.
After a while Daenerys and the child were taken back to the VIP room, and everyone followed.
Daenerys looked very energetic.
“Mom, bring the baby here, I want to have a look.”
“Don. You’ve looked at it several times. There’s someone taking care of it. Take a rest, close your eyes
and sleep.”
Her mother felt distressed and did not allow her to see the baby again.
“It is my child, why are you so mean?”
Daenerys said mischievously, and then looked at Winnie.
“Winwin, I brought you back from your vacation. It is getting late, you and Mr. Bennet must go home,
and if everything is all right in the morning, I’ll go home too.”
Daenerys could see that Winnie was tired and knew that Brian must wait outside, so she asked them to
have a rest.
“Yes, you all go back. Winwin, Mom, Dad, you can go home. I am here and it will be all right.”
Kevin was happy and asked everybody to go back. Everyone must be tired, and Daenerys could not
get enough rest here.
“You go back, I’ll stay here with Daenerys.”
Winnie didn’t want to go back. She wanted to stay with her friend.
“Go back. Brian is waiting outside, and he won’t go back unless you do. There’s nothing going on here.
There are nurses, matrons and doctors. You don’t have to worry. Go back.”
Kevin refused Winnie’s company and pushed her away as he spoke.
“Ok, I’ll go back, and you take care of Daenerys.”
Winnie had to go back.
Brian’s car had been sent to the hospital by Albert, so the two drove away directly.
“Winwin, don’t go back to the suburbs at this time, they are all asleep and we will wake the children.”
Brian said to Winnie as he drove.
“Just take me home, and let they children stay with Grandpa in the suburbs.”
Winnie wanted to go home, because returning to B City woke up all her dreams and brought her back
to reality. In the reality, Brian had his life, and she had her life. It’d better to have nothing to do with
each other.
“Come with me to the hilltop villa. I want to confirm the picture.”
Brian could only use this method to retain Winnie.
Winnie was silent for a moment.
“All right, then.”
It was three o’clock in the morning as the two people came to the hilltop villa. Winnie was so tired that
she took a shower, lay down on the bed and got ready to sleep.
Brian said he wanted to confirm the picture, but as she came out of the shower, Brian did not mention
it. Winnie did not ask after thinking.
Maybe he had confirmed it when she took the shower, or maybe he didn’t want her to see it. If that was
the case, it was useless for her to ask, so she closed her eyes and got to sleep.
“Tired?”
Brian asked softly.
“Yes, I’m tired. I’m going to sleep.”
“Me too, and I will confirm the picture when I wake up.”
Brian also lay down and got into Winnie’s quilt.
Winnie turned her back to Brian, feeling nervous.
Due to fatigue, Winnie fell asleep soon after, but she felt uneasy and did not have a sound sleep.
She felt that Brian got up and opened the drawer, but also heard the voice of the mobile phone turning
on.
Winnie’s consciousness became clear from fuzzy. But she closed her eyes and did not move, but
listened quietly.
After the phone was turned on, Brian was the first to find the picture. At the first sight, he frowned in
disbelief and felt nervous as he was in the dream.
Was this a dream? Why it was exactly the same as reality. There were things he could not remember,
but the picture was real.
So what happened in the dream? Was that reality? If it was, who was it driving the car to run into him?
Who was the woman to save him?
Now Brian kept thinking about it, but he could not remember more things.
He put the phone away, and then lay down on the bed, put Winnie in his arms but still thought of the
woman who had saved him.
Winnie had her back to Brian. Although she could not see it, she knew what Brian was doing when she
heard the sound of the phone turning on.
When they came here, Brian said that they were to have a look at the picture, but he secretly took a
look at it alone. It seemed that the woman in the picture meant something different to him.
He had amnesia and forgot things. This woman might be his friend, might be his classmate, might
simply be his savior, but might be his lover, otherwise how could he even dream of her?
Winnie told herself that Brian was a mysterious man, there were too many things she did not know, and
she even did not understand the man holding her.
She had fallen in love with such a man. Why she stayed with him?
This night, two people almost did not sleep. At seven o’clock, Winnie got up and was to go to the
hospital. She put all the things she had been thinking about last night behind, and she did not ask
about the picture, because he would say it if he wanted to, and if he did not want to say it, there would
be no answer even if she asked.
“You can sleep more. I am worried about Daenerys, so I gotta go to the hospital.”
Winnie dressed which he talked to Brian.
“I will drive the car, and I will ask Albert to drive it back.”
Winnie got out of bed and Brian got up.
“I’ll go to the hospital, too. Let’s go together.”
Brian was in no mood to sleep. He wanted to talk to Kevin and see if he knew something.
“Ok, take me to the suburbs. I need to get my car and change my clothes.”
Winnie was not even in the mood to take a shower. She just wanted to leave the villa.
She felt this hilltop villa did not like her, as long as she was here, she would have a bad mood.
“You have clothes here, don’t you?”
Brian did not know Winnie’s mind, because he had something to think of, so he did not pay attention to
her mind.
“I don’t like the clothes here. I don’t want to wear anything stiff when I’m not at work. Get up if you want
to go together. Daenerys will be out of the hospital later.”
Winnie urged and wanted to leave as soon as possible, because she was suffocating in this room.
So Brian sent Winnie to the suburbs, and then to the hospital.
When they arrived at the hospital, Daenerys had not been discharged, but Brian had no chance to talk
with Kevin alone.
“How are you today, can you go home today?”
Asked Brian, absent-mindedly.
“Daenerys and the baby will get checked when the doctor comes, and if everything’s okay, we’ll go
home.”
Kevin was joyful, smiling.
“Why don’t you stay two more days in the hospital? It’s safer.”
Seemingly infected by Kevin’s joy, Brian shifted his attention. At this time, he envied Kevin, who could
be with his wife since she gave birth to his baby.
If he had known earlier that it was Winnie, he could have experienced that.
“I want to go home. It’s so stuffy here and I’m not used to it. It is better to be at home.”
Daenerys was so eager to get home and did not want to stay there for a moment.
“By the way, why didn’t Winwin come with you?”
Asked Daenerys.
“She’s to get her car in the suburbs. She’ll be here in a minute.”
Brian looked down at the time and Winnie would take a while to get there.
“Be nice to Winwin, Mr. Bennet. You saw yesterday how hard it is to have a baby. Besides, Winwin had
two. She must have experienced more pain than I do.”
Daenerys felt that Brian could not understand till he experienced it. Brian should be grateful to Winnie
for giving birth children for him.
“She’s not easy not only for giving birth. Her whole life has been difficult. Rest assured that I will help
her and treat her well.”
Brian’s assurance was appreciated by Kevin and Daenerys, but he himself was not confident. He had
no control over what the future held, especially he had no idea what his grandfather would do after the
announcement of Megan’s identity.
He wanted to be good to her and keep her around, but was that possible?
While the three were talking, Daenerys’ parents opened the door and entered. Seeing them come in,
Brian felt that his chance had finally come.
After a brief greeting, Brian called Kevin out.
“What is going on?”
“Kevin asked inexplicably.
“It is about my nightmares. I dreamed about being pushed aside by a woman and the car didn’t hit me.”
Brian knew that Kevin’s time was limited, so he went straight to the point without being verbose.
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