My Darling, My Dearest

Chapter 184

Before the meeting was begun, Jack closed all the curtains in the room. The room darkened immediately.

The projector was turned on. The host made a few adjustments and an image appeared on the screen.

In a few seconds, he briefly stated the theme of the meeting before starting off by showing the statistics.

Jack wasn't the host of the meeting, instead, he sat and listened to the statistics being shown on the screen, holding different types of documents.

He had prepared some fruits and desserts for Rachel, because he didn't want her to be bored. This was the meeting about Mosa City the they would be visiting.

However, the meeting was actually very interesting. Rachel found herself paying attention from time to time, not bothering to eat the fruits and desserts in front of her.

In the hospital, Lea and Henry were at the edge of their seats. When her name was called, he immediately stood up and reached out his hand to assist her.

He was met with a push. "My stomach hurts. That doesn't mean I'm not able to walk," she said bluntly.

Without another word, he let her go.

Originally, he wanted to arrange an expert to meet her, but she rejected him with full sarcasm. At last, she relented and decided to queue up to meet the doctor.

The doctor they were about to meet was an experienced man in his fifties.

He sat down and listened to her ailment. When he asked her about her situation and felt her pulse, his eyes flashed.

With a smile on his face, he quickly wrote down on his notebook. Henry raised his eyebrows. "Doctor, is there something wrong with her stomach?"

The doctor shook his head. "You should go to the gynecology and obstetrics department on the second floor."

Knowing the implication of his words, both of them were stunned. They shared a look.

"Are you kidding me? I'm pregnant? How I..."

She glanced at the man beside her, seeing that he was also shocked by the sudden diagnosis.

Henry squeezed her hand. "Let's go upstairs and have a look."

She couldn't tell whether he was happy or not. Whatever he was feeling, he quickly dragged her upstairs like a puppeteer pulling her strings like a dangly marionette.

After a series of checks, the tension between them had gotten even more oppressive.

When the test report finally came out, the doctor came in. He clapped his hands together. "Congratulations! You've been pregnant for five weeks already, so you may have suffered from slight anemia..."

His words drifted into the back of her mind

as she widened her eyes.

The doctor might have noticed a certain shift between them because he stopped talking. "Are you planning on keeping the baby?"

Hearing this, Lea felt as if she had just snapped back to life.

Henry interrupted quickly, "We'll keep it. What else do we need to take care of?"

The doctor smiled and told them a series of things that they should watched out for before letting them off.

Even as they were finally done with the checkup, Lea still felt as if she was in a trance. As she went down the steps, she stumbled onto the floor and almost lost her balance.

Henry pulled her back immediately. "Lea!"

Her face had gone rapidly pale as she held onto his arm.

"I... I'm okay." she stuttered.

Henry was relieved. When they got back into the car, Lea took the report from her bag.

It seemed that she was pregnant!

She had been pregnant for five weeks now!

Lea closed her eyes and pressed her hand against her flat abdomen. At the sight of this, Henry gripped the steering wheel tightly.

Although he was driving, his thoughts drifted onto Lea and their unborn child.

Am I... going to be a father?1

When he heard the news, he calculated the days himself.

She had been incredibly irritable lately. In fact, they'd recently fought a lot.

When they were in the doctor's office, he had asked the doctor a series of questions.

Luckily, Lea was healthy even at such an early stage. They could examine the embryo in a few weeks.

Henry was delighted.

All he could think about was the family that he was about to have. He even thought about marrying the woman right next to him.

He turned to Lea, only to see her staring blankly ahead.

He frowned, realizing that it was up to her to decide on whether or not she wanted to keep the baby. Henry pursed his lips, wondering what was on her mind.

The meeting lasted for more than an hour. Although it was interesting to her at first, Rachel couldn't help but doze off at the second rounds of discussion.

Since the curtains around her were closed,

nobody came in to disturb her.

Over the past few years, she had a completely new understanding of Jack's life. He was a workaholic.

When it came to matters in the office, they shared the same work ethic. They always put their job at the top of their list.

Perhaps the only difference that separated them was that Jack managed to have a girlfriend during that time.

Although Rachel wasn't jealous of the woman, she was curious as to how Jack and Celine had gotten along with each other.

Even if she already witnessed the kind of man Jack was then and now, she still liked this version of him better.

He had changed. It was with their closeness when she started to see him differently.

After the meeting, Rachel didn't fall asleep again. Instead, she started to watch some movies with her earphones plugged in.

When the curtains were lifted, she looked up.

"Is it over?"

"Yes." Jack placed the remote control on the table before grabbing a piece of cake and feeding it to her. Rachel leaned back, trying to avoid the spoon. However, when her back landed against the leather seat, she knew that she had no other choice but to open her mouth.

He smiled with satisfaction and sat down beside her.

Rachel swallowed.

He got a cup of tea and fed it to her.

After drinking the tea, she finally looked up. "Jack..." she started.

He looked at the cup in his hand, looking a bit strange. Rachel waved her hand in front of him. "Are you listening to me?"

"Yes, I am." Jack placed the glass back on the desk and stared at her carefully.

After he set it down, Rachel grabbed the glass and slowly drank from it, relishing the sweetness that went down her throat.

He glanced at the untouched food and reached out to pick up a piece of the chestnut cake.

Rachel shook her head. "I don't like that."

"What do you like then?"

"I don't understand. Why do you like feeding people?" she asked.

Jack cleared his throat and placed a piece of watermelon into his mouth instead as if nothing had happened. "Do I?"

'Michael, your tricks didn't work at all,' he thought as he smiled awkwardly at her. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Rachel looked at Jack, who acted as if he had just seen a ghost.

He would never tell her the fact that he had shot Michael multiple questions on how to be a good husband. But it seemed that his tricks had failed drastically.

In fact, he might even give the guy a good slap on the head for leading him astray.

Seeing her confused expression, he rubbed the back of his neck. "Why are you looking at me like that? I just wanted to be nice for once."

'Be nice?' Although Rachel thought that it was okay that Jack had been good to her from time to time, she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable with him doing this all the time.

She remembered all the couples she had seen in the hospital. The girls would usually sit on their boyfriends' lap as they waited to be fed. The mere act made her sick in the stomach.

Seeing her hesitation, he furrowed his eyebrows. "You don't like it?"

"No."

"I won't do it again then," he said firmly.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for Jack. After all, the man was trying to be nice. "I have hands. It's really fine," she added, implying that she could take care of herself.

Jack was not a stubborn man. He quickly backed down from the tactic and smiled. "Are you bored?"

It was incredibly boring here. Although he had documents to file, she couldn't possibly do anything in his office.

She hesitated for a while and nodded. He grinned. "Why don't we go somewhere?"

"Where?"

"Wherever."

He quickly packed his things and walked out with her. It was still early anyway, so they wandered around the city. After buying a few things, they headed towards the outskirts of the city.

"Where are we going?" she asked curiously.

"Let's take a walk." While controlling the steering wheel, he stretched his hands and twisted his neck. "I've been busy recently, so let's go and get some fresh air."