novelxo Chapter 1507
"What?" Where did this Lawrie appear from? Levi cupped his forehead in annoyance and groaned, "Hey little one, repeat what you just said."
Larry was about to continue, but he was interrupted by Julien, who said, "This is none of your business. You can go back now."
Larry said pitifully, "Uncle Julien, I still want to play with Lawrie."
Julien said emotionlessly, "Lawrie is going to bed. He needs to get up early for his operation tomorrow."
Larry understood that Lawrie had to get a good rest before the operation. Thus, he nodded sensibly, "In that case, I will wait until after his operation is over to come play with him again."
Julien was satisfied with his answer and nodded, "Yes. Now, go back and accompany your mom. She must be missing you."
Levi stretched his neck to try and catch a glimpse of who was lying in the ward, but the door was half-closed, so he couldn't see anything at all. Since he couldn't see anything from the outside, he wanted to rush into the room and check it out. However, he was stopped by Julien as soon as he moved, "It's late. You should bring Larry back and make sure he gets to his parents."
Lawrie was in the room. All Levi needed to do was take a step forward to catch a glimpse of this mysterious Lawrie. Unfortunately, to Levi's frustration, Julien had blocked his way. Levi grumbled, "Julien, tell me, who is Lawrie, actually? What is the truth?"
Julien replied with an icy glare. Only the cute kid Larry bothered to answer Levi. He tugged on the corner of Levi's clothes and said, "Uncle Levi, please take me home first. I'll tell you all about Lawrie on the way home."
"But I want to know now. Who is Lawrie, actually?"
Larry replied innocently, "Well, Lawrie is Lawrie."
Levi was dumbfounded.
He had a feeling that this brat was deliberately provoking him in order to help his Uncle Julien.
Larry tugged on the corner of Levi's clothes again and said in a low voice, "Uncle Levi, let's go. If we don't go now, Uncle Julien will be angry. On the way back, I will tell you everything I know about Lawrie." "Fine, I'll take you home."
Did he have any other choice?
No!
After successfully chasing the nosy Levi and the sensible Larry away, Julien realized that something was up with Vanessa.
A while ago, Vanessa had fallen silent after having heard what Levi said. Her facial expression now was still sour. She lowered her head and bit her lip tightly, looking as though she was lost in her thoughts. "Vanessa, Levi likes to talk nonsense. Don't take what he said to heart. You just need to remember that Lawrie is our child," Julien was sure that Vanessa's mood must have something to do with what Levi said earlier. If he had known that Levi would be so inconsiderate, he would not have let him show up here.
However, Vanessa couldn't listen to a thing Julien said. Instead, she pushed him away as if she had gone mad and took a few steps back. She stammered, "No, that's not true... Lawrie is not our child. Lawrie is the child that I gave birth to with another man."
Julien wanted to embrace Vanessa again, but before he could touch her, she ran away again. Tears started falling from her eyes. She roared hysterically, "Julien, I'm lying to you! I'm a liar! You don't know anything, you don't..."
Julien chased after Vanessa. No matter how hard she hit him, he still held her in his arms and coaxed, "I know. I know everything. You're the one who doesn't know anything. You've been kept in the dark for so long. The one who has suffered the most all these years is you."
Thinking back to the time when she proposed the breakup, Julien was not indifferent at all. On the contrary, he was very against it. He had lived a much more painful life than she had imagined, and she was the cause of his pain. At the thought of this, Vanessa could not help but blame herself, "Julien Glover Kyle, you don't know anything. You don't know... Lawrie's father is not dead. The truth is that I don't even know who he is."
Vanessa wanted to stop crying and tell him about what happened a few years ago. However, when she looked at him, her tears couldn't stop falling and she sobbed, "A few years ago, I drank too much at the graduation party. The next day when I woke up, I was defiled. But... I have no idea who was the culprit. I insisted on giving birth to Lawrie because I wanted to find who the man was, but I found nothing after searching for so many years. It was as if that man did not exist in the first place."
She never wanted to tell him all of this. She didn't want to lay herself bare and reveal all her emotions in front of him. However, she could no longer pretend as if nothing had happened while she enjoyed his affection towards her.
Julien grabbed her tightly and shouted, "Vanessa, that man was me!"
Hearing this, Vanessa was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, she smiled and said, "Julien, you really don't have to comfort me this way. Thank you for loving me all these years, but I really don't deserve you at
all."
Julien's face darkened as he said coldly, "It's up to me to decide whether or not you deserve my love. I need to tell you that the man from that night is me. There has never been any other person that came between us. Lawrie is our child."
Vanessa shook her head and muttered, "No, that's impossible. You were in Chatterton Town that day..."
Julien explained to her patiently, "That day, I rushed back to New York from Chatterton Town without your knowledge because I wanted to give you a surprise. But when I got there, I overheard someone saying that you had gone up to the hotel room with some man. When I went up, there was indeed a man in your room, but I chased him out... That night... I was the man who had sex with you."
"It was really you?" Vanessa raised her head and looked at Julien quietly, as if she was looking at a stranger. She continued softly, "If that man was really you that night, why weren't you by my side when I woke up? Why didn't you tell me earlier? Why did you agree to break up with me?"
"Because..."
It was because he misunderstood her, but Julien couldn't bring himself to say it.
Vanessa pried his hand away, shook her head, and took a step back. She smiled wryly, "Julien, you don't have to lie to me. I really wished that you were the man from that night, but I know that's impossible." Julien grabbed her hand and said, "Vanessa, it's because I misunderstood you. I thought you were looking down on me because I didn't have any money. That's why I agreed to break up with you."
It was because he misunderstood her!
Vanessa looked at Julien for a long time before finally coming to her senses, "Say that again."
"Vanessa, I misunderstood you. If I hadn't been blinded by anger that day, I wouldn't have..."
"Fine, just stop talking! I beg you, just please..." In the past, Vanessa had wished more than once for the man that night to be Julien. However, now that he was personally telling her that it was him, she did not want to believe it.
How could her beloved Julien be the man she had been wanting to tear apart to pieces?!
It couldn't be him. It couldn't be!