Mr. Ford Is Jealouss by Boad

Chapter 14

moment there. Zeta glanced at Roger, then at Stella, before scratching her nose awkwardly. “His condition is stable, so I’ll be going now.” Then, she quickly left the ward. Before she closed the door, she looked at the siblings who seemed ready to jump at each other’s throats and realized that she had said something wrong. She slapped her mouth and mumbled to herself, “Why do I keep running my mouth…” Inside the ward, perhaps because the consecutive setbacks had helped Roger learn to stay calm, he solemnly asked Stella about it instead of flying into a rage. “A baby? Don’t tell me it belongs to Weston.” His hands had balled into fists under the blanket, making the veins on his arms visible. He was originally skinny but further lost weight when he was ill, so even the shape of his bones was showing. Stella sat down beside his bed and looked at him calmly. “It’s my child alone.” “How can you have a baby on your own? Do you think I’m an idiot?!” Roger couldn’t resist bellowing, “What does Weston mean by this? He doesn’t want you and isn’t willing to take responsibility, and now he wants you to bear his child?” Stella abruptly raised her voice and interrupted him, “I wanted to keep the child! He didn’t want it, but I begged him to let me keep it…” “Why…?” Roger didn’t understand. Stella looked at her stomach and said faintly, “I have a unique constitution. This might be the only child I can ever have.” Roger felt the energy drain from his body. His eyes became bloodshot and he hammered a fist onto the bed in resignation. Stella also felt upset after seeing his reaction. Her nose tingled as her calm facade began to crack. “Roger, you can’t tell anyone about this. You must keep it to yourself. This is my child alone, do you understand?” Roger took a deep breath and kept quiet as he shook badly. After a long while, he finally contained his hostility and said, “I understand…” *** After calming Roger’s emotions, Stella planned to return to the mansion to pack up. She didn’t know when Weston would send someone to pick her up to collect