"Of course."
"Are there really n like that?"
Sienna Johnson thought of Drew Rafael, her knight in shining armor during her teenage years, the man she had dread of marrying... but now, where was her "Drew"?
Drew Rafael was an illegitimate child, taken back ho by his father. Was he living a good life?
Not everyone who returned to their birth parents found happiness; she certainly hadn’t. She would rather live with her adoptive parents than return to the Johnson Family.
"What is he like? Tell quickly," Selena Robertson asked with interest.
Which young girl didn’t dream of romance?
"He is a very, very good person. He’d bring all sorts of delicious food and fun things. When others bullied , he’d protect , and he also said..."
A light smile played on her lips, making her already stunning face seem to glow with a soft radiance. Adrian Desmond felt that Sienna’s beauty at this mont was breathtaking.
Her voice beca soft and slow, as if she feared that any carelessness would shatter the beautiful mories, pulling him out of them.
"What did he say?"
"He said..." Sienna’s words stopped abruptly. That question hadn’t been asked by Kiki. Sienna turned her head and saw Adrian Desmond, who had appeared in the room at so point. How much had he heard?
"Adrian? When did you get back? Didn’t you say you’d be ho late tonight?" Sienna asked, her tone casual.
"Sixth Master!" Upon seeing Adrian, Selena Robertson quickly composed herself, her smile vanishing. She picked up the fruit plate and tactfully left the room.
"What did he say?" Adrian pressed.
Naturally, Sienna was unwilling to discuss Drew Rafael with Adrian.
She changed the subject. "Did everything go well today?"
Sienna sat in a rocking chair by the window. The chair swayed gently. Adrian walked over, squatted down, and pressed his ear to her stomach. "Son, were you well-behaved today?" he asked.
Ever since this man had learned she was pregnant, he repeated this ritual every day upon returning ho. Sienna found it amusing. "He’s still just an undeveloped embryo. There won’t be any fetal movent yet."
"He’s not an embryo; he’s my son! Adrian Desmond’s son!"
"Adrian, if it turns out to be a girl, I’ll tell her exactly how much you wanted a son, and how little you wanted a daughter."
Adrian didn’t get angry, just smiled at her. "You’re just trying to sow discord!"
"Sow discord? Look at you, going on and on about ’son, son.’ What if it’s a girl?"
"It must be a son!" he declared with certainty.
Sienna glared at him, no longer wanting to engage. He wants a son? Fine, I’ll have a daughter just to spite him.
"I’ve never failed to get what I want! This ti I want a son, and it will definitely be a son!"
Such an arrogant tone! So infuriating!
"Adrian, life doesn’t always go your way, you know. Nine tis out of ten, it won’t. You can’t always get what you want."
"...It’s fine. If we don’t have a son this ti, we’ll try again next ti. We’ll eventually have a son," Adrian said magnanimously.
Sienna retorted irritably, "Who wants to have more children with you? If you want to, go have them with Miss Carpenter!"
Adrian leaned in, looking into her eyes. "You little pot of jealousy. If I really had children with lanie, who knows what kind of scene you’d make."
"You insist on marrying Miss Carpenter, so having children with her is just a matter of ti. So what if I’m a ’pot of jealousy’? So what if I’m jealous? Can that change the Sixth Master’s decision?" Sienna argued, her anger rising.
"lanie is a wonderful person. If you spent more ti with her, you’d understand..."
He was trying to persuade her to coexist peacefully with his primary wife, clearly intending to enjoy the company of both won. Sienna couldn’t help but counter, "Adrian, if you can peacefully coexist with my lovers, then I can peacefully coexist with your Fiancee!"
Adrian was an intensely possessive man, especially regarding his won; other n couldn’t even lay a finger on them. "...If I find out you’re fooling around with another man, I’ll chop him into minceat and feed him to the dogs!"
"How impressive, Sixth Master!" Sienna scoffed, then stood up and walked away.
Adrian rose quickly, taking a few hurried steps to embrace her from behind. He inhaled her scent, unwilling to let her go. "You’re already pregnant. Can we please stop fighting?" His voice softened involuntarily.
"Adrian, I’m not so magnanimous or virtuous woman. If you dare marry another woman, I dare find a lover! For every woman you sleep with, I’ll sleep with a man!" Sienna was a headstrong woman; she would never learn the demure ways of a gentle lady.
"Mai, are you even a woman? How can a woman say such things?"
A cold sneer touched Sienna’s lips. "Adrian, I am not a woman from Abyanabad! So, your quaint ideas about ’three wives and four concubines’ can go to hell!"
"..."
"If you are unkind to , don’t bla for being unjust in return!"
Adrian’s brow furrowed deeply. The woman before him was, in fact, harder-hearted than any man. Their different upbringings and values created an unbridgeable gap; he couldn’t reason with her, and she couldn’t understand him. Adrian found himself unable to get through to Sienna, and their conversations invariably ended on a sour note.
"...Mai, you’re already my woman, and you’re carrying my child. What more do you want? If we could just get along, it would be better for everyone. Don’t you want our child to have a happy family?" Adrian’s voice was laced with fatigue and helplessness.
"But our family would have an extra woman! A triangle might be the most stable shape in geotry, but it’s disastrous for relationships! A three-person romance is bound to cause problems sooner or later!"
Adrian’s face darkened. He gritted his teeth. "In Abyanabad, even a relationship with ten people wouldn’t be a problem! Mai, you are the problem!"
"Love is possessiveness! It’s jealousy! Do you think those n who marry ten wives are happy? I don’t! Their wives don’t love them at all. If they truly loved their husbands, they would never allow them to marry other won!"
"..."
"...It’s just like how you’d fly into a rage and want to kill soone if you heard I had a lover! Won are human beings, just like n! Jealousy! That emotion is the sa for both!"
The deadlock between them, an unbreakable impasse. "I can’t break my promise. I must marry lanie. Besides, she has no other family left, only . If I don’t marry her, what will beco of her?"
"Then let go!"
"That’s even more impossible!" Adrian rejected her instantly, without a second thought.
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