"Miss Carpenter? How did you get here?" Sienna Johnson instinctively placed her hand on her flat belly. She suddenly realized why she had fainted. "My baby? ..."
lanie Carpenter knew what she was worried about. She held Sienna’s hand and said, "Mai, don’t worry, the baby is fine."
Sienna’s heart eased. Nothing was more important than the baby. Only if the baby was alright could she find the courage to face the upcoming challenges.
"As long as it’s okay, as long as it’s okay..." Knowing the child was unhard, the turbulent emotions in Sienna’s eyes settled, and she regained her composure.
"Do you want so water?" lanie asked.
Sienna felt as if smoke were rising in her throat; she desperately wanted a drink. But the water was offered by lanie... Sienna looked up at the gentle-faced woman emanating an aura of peace. They are rivals.
"I’m carrying Adrian’s child."
"I know."
lanie knew, yet she remained so calm and collected. If I were in her shoes, knowing Adrian had gotten another woman pregnant, I’d probably want to stab him in the heart.
"Aren’t you jealous?"
lanie was pouring water for Sienna. Hearing her words, she paused for a mont, then continued pouring a glass of warm water. She approached Sienna to help her drink, but Sienna shook her head. "I’m not thirsty!"
Sienna still couldn’t trust lanie. They are rivals. I don’t believe any woman in this world could be so magnanimous and tolerant towards her romantic competition.
In the city where I lived, primary wives and mistresses were as incompatible as fire and water. Stripping a mistress naked and parading her through the streets was considered mild. In extre cases, the mistress wouldn’t just be disfigured; the adulterous couple would be killed.
Seeing Sienna didn’t want to drink, lanie didn’t insist. She put the water back. "Mai, why have you always been so hostile towards ? I’ve thought about it, and I’ve never done anything to hurt you."
"Not yet..."
lanie interjected, "And I never will."
Sienna didn’t believe her. "We are rivals!"
"We are both Sixth Brother’s won. We are sisters. I am Sister, and I will take care of you, including the child you will eventually bear... You don’t need to be so guarded against . Your child is also my child!"
Those words thoroughly enraged Sienna. She shouted at lanie, "Shut up! My child is mine! It will never be yours!"
What does she an by that? The child in my belly is mine, Sienna Johnson’s! How could it possibly belong to this woman in front of , even if she is Adrian’s fiancée? No one can take my child away from , not even Adrian, its father!
"You can’t take my child from ! If you want a child, go have one yourself! My child—neither you nor that bastard Adrian will take my child from !"
In the confusion, her hand accidentally knocked over a glass on the bedside table. The glass fell to the floor and shattered with a CRASH. lanie bent down to pick up the fragnts and cut her hand. Just then, Adrian arrived and witnessed the chaotic scene.
"Mai, what have you done?" Adrian strode over and helped lanie, who was squatting on the ground, to her feet. Seeing blood on her fingers, he glared at Sienna and demanded, "What did you do to lanie?"
"Sixth Brother, I’m fine. The glass fell, and I was trying to pick it up but accidentally cut my hand," lanie explained.
"Let see." Adrian held lanie’s fingers, examining her wound with focused concentration. That look stung a nerve in Sienna.
"Adrian, don’t touch her! I said, don’t touch her!" Sienna was jealous! From the mont Adrian had entered the room, his first glance had been at lanie, and Sienna couldn’t stand that neglect.
Sienna suddenly erupted.
"Mai, stop causing trouble," Adrian scolded.
"Adrian, tell her you won’t marry her! Tell her to get lost!" Sienna tried to force Adrian to choose. So things are best dealt with quickly rather than being drawn out.
Seeing Sienna’s furious state, lanie suddenly burst into tears. "Sixth Brother..."
Adrian wrapped his arms around lanie, gently patting her back to comfort her. "Don’t overthink it. She’s sick and emotionally unstable. You go back to the island first. I’ll co back as soon as I’m done here."
"I forbid you from holding other won!"
Suddenly, sothing flew towards them. Adrian swiftly raised his arm to block it. CRASH! Sothing shattered. Instinctively, he shielded lanie, holding her tightly as water from the vase drenched him.
The vase had held white lotus flowers, Sienna’s favorite.
With the broken vase, the lotus flowers lay scattered and wilted on the floor.
"AH!" lanie scread. Seeing the water and porcelain fragnts on Adrian, she asked anxiously, "Sixth Brother, are you okay?"
Adrian was also stunned. He looked at the woman on the bed, her eyes cold. He’d never imagined she could be so vicious as to attack lanie with a vase. "Mai, how could you be so malicious?"
"Malicious? Only now you realize I’m malicious? I’ve always been this malicious!" Sienna tore away her facade of false calm. "Adrian, between and Miss Carpenter, you can only choose one!"
Sienna bit her lip hard, tilting her head back slightly to keep the tears from falling.
"Sixth Brother, are you hurt?" lanie asked, her eyes filled only with concern for Adrian, her expression distraught.
"No."
"How can you not be? Your face is bleeding!" Shards of porcelain had cut his face in several places. If Adrian hadn’t reacted so quickly, the vase would have smashed on his head, likely cracking it open.
"How could she do this?"
The usually gentle lanie suddenly rushed over and slapped Sienna across the face, scolding, "I’m hitting you for throwing that vase at Sixth Brother! Since you’re Sixth Brother’s woman, you should obey him—"
Before lanie could finish, Sienna sat up slightly, grabbed lanie’s arm, and slapped her face twice, HARD.
"You dare hit ? What right do you have? Who the hell do you think you are?!" Sienna was never one to suffer a loss, especially not from a rival.
lanie clutched her face, stunned. She hadn’t expected Sienna to be so fierce. Both won, now frenzied, began to fight. Although Sienna was pregnant and still weak, she had learned close-quarter combat; lanie was no match for her.
Adrian, watching from the sidelines, was completely dumbfounded. He knew Sienna was feisty. However, he never imagined that lanie, who usually wouldn’t even harm an ant, would actually brawl with soone.
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