Catherine had spelt it out for her but this woman still wouldn’t heed her advice.She deserved what she was going through Catherine looked as cool and collected as ever.She glanced at a maid who was mopping the floor nearby and said, “See this guest out.”
Cassie left Catherine’s house with the check in hand.She had made up her mind to keep the child.Her first priority was to return home and provide her growing fetus with nourishment.
When she got home, she felt the place was lacking things for a baby so she happily made a trip to the mall A shop assistant in the baby product store saw that Cassie had been picking items for quite a long time.She smiled and asked, “Miss, do you need my help? Are you looking for products for a boy or a girl?”
The shop assistant looked Cassie up and down, thinking that she didn’t look like a mother.She asked, “Or are you picking something out for your friend’s child?”
With her arms crossed over her chest, Cassie didn’t look as humble and pitiful as she had been before Luke and Catherine earlier that morning.She gestured at the baby products on the shelf and said happily, “I want something for my own child.It’s a boy.Pack up all the baby products here.”
The shop assistant looked at Cassie’s belly which wasn’t showing yet.
How could she possibly know whether it was a boy or a girl this early in the pregnancy? But she had come across many customers who preferred boys to girls.
The shop assistant immediately packed the goods up for Cassie with a polite smile.
Cassie walked out of the shopping mall with her bags of baby products in tow.It wasn’t until that moment that she truly felt her pregnancy was true.
She could feel that everything had taken a turn for the better.
Cassie told herself that she could endure anything from then on.
After the child was born, she would meet out vengeance for all the humiliation she had suffered today.
There were a lot of people and cars in the business hub in Seacisco.
Suddenly, a black car without a license plate drove quickly towards the sidewalk from a distance, ran straight through a red light, and then knocked a woman who was crossing the road with several bags of baby products a few meters away.
Cassie was sent to the hospital by a kind-hearted passerby.
Although she was not seriously injured, she had suffered a miscarriage.
“How can my baby be gone?” she lamented.
She held her aching lower abdomen and screamed loudly into the bed.Her face had an expression of mixed ferocity and desperation.Her eyes were filled with madness after her hopes had been dashed.
Just moments prior to the collision, she was dreaming about the bright future life had in store for her.
The next moment, she had fallen into an endless abyss.
No one replied to Cassie.
They just thought she was venting her sadness and frustration, A nurse offered her some advice though.
“Miss, you just had a miscarriage. You’d better stay in bed to rest.”
Regardless of the nurse’s dissuasion, Cassie got out of bed in a hyped craze and looked for her phone in her bag to call the police.
After several inquiries, she found out that the road was in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras, and the car that hit her had no license.It would be very difficult to find the driver.
Cassie held her head and bawled her eyes out in the bed.
“It was probably just an accident, Miss.I’m so sorry. Take it easy. You will fall pregnant in future,” the nurse said in a sympathetic, comforting voice.
Being a nurse herself, she had seen a lot of women miscarry after a tragic accident.
“No.I won’t. It’s impossible now!” Cassie laughed bitterly and her anguish could be heard in her voice.Her eyes were bloodshot and she had lost her mind.
No matter how stupid she was, she could figure out that it was Luke who was behind it.He didn’t want her to give birth to his child.
Probably for fear that she wouldn’t go and have the abortion, he felt the need to take care of this himself.He acted like a gentleman all the time, but he was just pretending.He was actually cruel and vicious.
Cassie cried out bitterly, “Liar! He’s a monster! How could he do such a terrible thing?”
Finally, the extent of Luke’s cruelty dawned upon her.She became even more panicked.She didn’t have a single soul to rely on anymore, and she had lost her child.
With her last glimmer of hope, Cassie called Charis.She thought that Charis was a simple and unsophisticated woman, so she could still deceive her and pretend to be pitiful in front of her.She genuinely believed that Charis would help her.She would ask Charis to plead with Luke for mercy.
For the sake of his daughter, she believed that Luke would forgive her.
Charis was in a senior executives’ meeting when her phone rang.She glanced at the caller ID and hesitated.She was aware that Natalie had been saved; the news had been all over TV just a couple of days ago.She had also heard from her father that Lauren had practically disappeared from the face of the earth.
Charis presumed that this was Brandon’s doing.
After all, she was clear about the dual identities of Sebastian.
Moreover, she knew Brandon very well.
Since Brandon had intervened, she knew that Lauren would be count her blessing if she could come back alive.
Lauren and Cassie had tried several times to hurt Natalie, and they had failed each attempt.
The way that Charis saw it, Cassie was pretty much useless without her mother.
Charis was already risking a lot, not knowing if Lauren would end up betraying her.She couldn’t afford to associate herself with Cassie any further.
“Why don’t you take that call, Miss Turner?” the man sitting beside her suggested.
“Your phone has been ringing incessantly for a while now.”
Charis instantly ended the call and put Cassie’s contact information on her blacklist. She mustered a smile and replied, “It’s no one important.Let’s carry on, shall we?”
Charis didn’t want to have anything to do with the Quinn family anymore, especially since Lauren had already been exposed for her crimes.She couldn’t risk getting implicated in the other woman’s scandal.
Meanwhile, Cassie continued to call Charis, but the line was always busy.
Bewildered and scared, she curled up into herself.
Sweat was beading on her forehead, and the pain in her belly was worsening by the second.
Cassie and Charis used to be as close as best friends.She had really thought Charis was a simple, kindhearted woman, but now it seemed that the bitch had only been putting on an act.
Now that she was in trouble, Charis blackmailed her without hesitation.
“That bitch!”
Cassie almost threw her phone in a fit of anger, but she managed to rein in her emotions.She couldn’t help but feel like an utter fool to have been manipulated by the Turner family.
Like father, like daughter indeed.
Cassie was still stewing and struggling with her frustration when her phone began to buzz.It was George calling.
“What’s up, Dad?” Cassie snapped.
To her dismay, George returned her impatient tone with a furious one.
“Where the hell are you? Do you have any idea what your mother has done? Why is she suddenly confessing to the police that she paid to have someone killed? You two are so troublesome! You give me nothing but problems!”
