Westley answered the phone from the corridor, so Gabrielle entered the ward alone.
The nurse was leaving when Gabrielle walked in after she had cleaned Nellie. Nellie had woken up, and she looked pale as she lay on the bed. She whispered something as if she was talking to the baby while she touched her belly gently.
The moment Gabrielle walked in, Nellie turned around and glared at her subconsciously. Nellie was somehow bewildered by the strange face for a moment.
“Excuse me, are you looking for someone?” Nellie asked warily.
Noticing the alertness in her eyes, Gabrielle relaxed a little.
That meant Nellie was not a lovely but dumb woman.
“I’m certainly here to see you, Miss Collins.” Gabrielle walked to her bedside, looking at Nellie casually and then at her belly. She had probably been pregnant for five months.
obviously wanted no one to gawk at her tummy like this, so she reflexively pulled over the
moment and then drew a
get scared. I’m not here to do you harm. My name is Gabrielle Jones, and your
always hiding had turned Nellie’s insecurities into something else. She was never comfortable around every new person she met. “I never thought that Bryce would mention me.
extremes but I didn’t hear him say anything bad about you.” More precisely, Nellie was meeting Gabrielle for the first time so they
good connection.” Gabrielle sounded a little displeased from how she sounded, but facts were facts. For a long time, Bryce had a crush on Nellie, and she was his Muse. Else, he wouldn’t have risked offending the Morris amily just like that. After all, a commoner would never have the guts to offend such a family. “I wouldn’t have kept the baby were it not
when she became a mother, which meant she already loved the
that you love this
can help you. The only thing
would finally and completely cut off the relationship with the Collins family. The baby was
was key to a lot of things for them all, but Gabrielle was not about to tell Nellie
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