Pregnant With Twins: My CEO’s Tricky Love

“No.”

Georgia said dubiously.

“They were concerned about Emilia. The two of them might look cold and hard to approach, but ever since Emilia got hurt, they’ve been trying to look for ways to help her, and they’ve stayed in constant contact with us. If there’s anything that’s a bit different from regular parents, it’d be how understanding they were. Emilia ended up like this because of me and Robert, and even though the two of us definitely didn’t want it, the cause was definitely the two of us as well.

“We had a conflict with Eric, which led to Emilia going through this torment. It’d be exceedingly difficult for normal parents not to take it out on us, and even hate Robert and I. But Oscar and Margie were only focused on helping us treat Emilia and make Eric pay. Does that count as something unusual?”

Georgia was still dubious. It wasn’t that there was nobody this understanding in the world, and she couldn’t say that it was “off” for Emilia’s parents not to blame them.

And she wasn’t about to look that gift horse in the mouth.

“It might just be a feeling of mine. I’ve just always felt that Emilia’s parents were strange, but my relations with the Powell family don’t run deep, and I’ve never investigated if there was something off about them particularly. My instincts have always been sharp, though. Don’t trust Emilia’s parents too much, Georgia. Even Emilia herself isn’t too close with them. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have liked to wander outside so much, so much that there could be a whole year between seeing her parents.

“Emilia’s not the sort of person to deliberately stay away from her parents, either. She’s actually got a great sibling-like relationship going with Aston, and she’s close with me as her aunt as well. I don’t know if their family’s just naturally cold and aren’t too suited to living together, or if there’s any other causes. Emilia hasn’t talked to me about it. She doesn’t like talking about her own family. Now that she’s mentally traumatized, you can’t ask her that sort of question, either.

“Anyway, just watch out. Don’t trust the Powell family easily. Selfish blood runs in their veins. Of course, Laurie and Carr are good people.”

“I’ve got it. Don’t worry, Mom. I’ll keep an eye out.”

After Georgia made that promise, Casey relaxed.

As the two sides hung up, she turned to Robert.

“Do you think there’s anything unusual with Oscar and Margie?”

“I can’t tell. They’re Emilia’s parents. At least from Emilia’s incident till now, they’ve acted like normal parents. It’s not that they don’t hold a grudge against us at all. It’s just that they’ve kept it reined in. I can’t say if that’s normal or not, since I’ve never experienced my children getting hurt, and I hope I never will.”

“No matter how it is, since my mother reminded us – didn’t you talk with Oscar for a while? What did he want from you? Let’s be careful. We’ve got children, and your condition has to draw the attention of others. We have to remain cautious.”

“I’ve got it. Oscar mainly talked about moving against Eric this afternoon. I gave him the general outline. He wants to get involved and to avenge his daughter personally.”

“So you told him about the plan?”

Georgia asked, while Robert nodded.

“Don’t worry. If Emilia’s father really is off and could put a wrench in our plans, this might let us realize even sooner that he’s not on the same front as we are. If we take revenge successfully on Eric, that in turn proves that we’ve overthought it. Even if they knew about the plan, the worst-case scenario is that Eric gets away. Our plan might not succeed anyway.”

we can investigate Oscar and Margie’s past. We might

walked in and told them Emilia had woken

her, of

that he was

be better today, so they waited outside the room.

was composed completely of foam walls. Even the bed

room with a

suicide risks. Emilia wasn’t there yet, but they were afraid she’d

saw Emilia sitting on the ground, her head between her knees, her legs hugged

expression and didn’t know what condition she

taking care to lighten his footsteps so Emilia wouldn’t be

that people who’d undergone mental trauma could be triggered

stopping a few paces from Emilia, Ivan slowly sat

zone for interpersonal distance, and

wanted to stay

about it, though. He’d asked about

crumble whenever she saw or heard people before, chasing everyone out and howling in agony in her room. Her emotions had

minutes already. Logically speaking, even with his footsteps so light, Emilia should

just stayed her curled up sitting on the ground, not even

couldn’t be sure what mental state Emilia was in, so he just

afraid that saying something would startle

he knew that he just had

on for almost half an hour before Emilia slowly raised her

and she looked at Ivan like she was looking

I shut in here? Daddy and Mommy are too busy with work to visit me again, aren’t

spoke her first sentence, Ivan’s heart

how old you

asked, and Emilia’s tone turned

something like that? Are you some secretary Daddy and Mommy sent over to manage me? I annoyed the last

“Yes, I’m new.”

said heavily, his gut

If you want to manage me as a secretary, you have to play games with me and take me to theme parks. Otherwise, I’ll tell

Ivan