The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 264 Suddenly Missing You

"Can I trust you?” Jacob locked his gaze on Julian.

Meeting eyes, Julian spoke with conviction. "Susan is more important than my life.”

He was serious. There was no hint of a joke in his words.

Jacob remained looking at him for a beat before he nodded. “Okay, I trust you. But you have my words. If you hurt Susie one day, I won’t hesitate to take her away from you. You should know that I now have the ability to!”

There was a tinge of dominance when Jacob got to the end of his declaration. After coming back from death’s grip and recovering his past memory, Jacob was now much stronger than he was prior.

Susan was his most important person. He would never allow anyone to hurt her, not even Julian.

Julian could not help scoffing. "I won’t give you that chance."

"I hope." Jacob shifted his gaze to the window and suddenly said in a low tone, "Don’t tell Susie our speculation for now."

"I know." Julian's expression turned grim as well.

There was a humorless chuckle from Jacob and he looked caught in between. "Actually, it better to trigger the disease as early as possible. Dad had a heart attack when he was fifty and died on the spot. Grandpa’s was when he was fifty-three and he passed there and then too. The younger the age is when the heart attack strikes, the stronger the body is to fight. The chance of survival is actually higher." 1

"But we can't be sure if Susie actually has latent CVD and with how random the attack is, we won't be able t o control it." Julian supplied, worry tinging the bottom of his deep eyes.

"We can only wait for now." Jacob pressed his lips together. "I only wish for Susie to be safe when she gives birth.”

There was a squeeze in Julian's heart. He was distraught about the same thing.

Delivering a baby was basically flirting with death for a woman. If Susie's heart disease picked that time to b e triggered, the consequences... were unimaginable!

Julian gritted his teeth. "Maybe we shouldn't have this child."

His heart was quivering when he said it.

The baby could already move now and it could interact with him. It was already a tiny life of its own. He and Susie were anticipating the arrival of this new life.

If, however, Susie's labor triggered the cardiovascular disease, Julian was not sure if he could take the aftermath.

Moreover, the disease was hereditary according to Jacob. If their children had it too, would they hate him and Susie for bringing them into this world?

Once he considered the possibility of their children hating them, Julian was rendered helpless no matter how powerful and influential he was.

"Don't want the child?” Jacob was alarmed. "No way, Susie loves children. She'll go crazy."

"But I'm more afraid of Susie getting in danger." Julian's voice was a little hoarse. "How am I supposed to live if something happens to her during labor?"

The raging emotions in Julian’s orbs stunned Jacob. H e clenched his jaw. Susie came first, then the baby. Of course, he did not want anything to happen to her.

Perhaps not wanting the baby was a safer route, but what if the disease was only inherited by men and Susie was fine? She had been yearning for this child too!

"Julian, calm down." Jacob inhaled deeply. "Things aren’t as bad yet. We should first determine the possibility of Susie having OVD, yeah? If you know any experts in this field, you can ask them about it, if it's possible for this type of heart disease to only be inherited by males and not females - or maybe if it just stops being passed down."

"I'll ask them.” Julian nodded.

"Also, before my heart attack, for two consecutive days, my heart rate was over the roof and I had palpitations from time to time. I felt blood rushing up t o my head too and felt groggy. If similar conditions appear on Susie, admit her to the hospital at once." Jacob looked grim.

"I understand." Julian took note of it seriously as well.

At the end of their conversation, both men fell into silence with worry brooding deep in their eyes. The unease was all because of the woman both of them cared about.

When Susan woke up the next day in high spirits, she went to see Jacob early in the morning.

"Jacob, did you sleep well last night?" she asked carefully.

"Pretty good. Julian kept me company for the night," Jacob answered with a chortle.

When he looked at Susan now, he tucked the anxiousness away in his heart and replaced it with gentle fondness.

"Ah, thank you for that." Susan beamed sweetly at Julian and landed a soft kiss on his cheek.

"Only one kiss?" Julian looked at her with a grin.

Smacking her lips together, Susan pecked his other cheek as well. "What about now?"

"Acceptable." Julian's smile was kind.

"Acceptable? Don't you get too greedy." Susan

playfully glared at him.

Looking at her endearing exuberance, there was an inexplicable panic that took over Julian for no reason.

His Susie was so dear. He honestly could not imagine losing this woman one day. No! He could never accept that possibility.

When Jacob underwent the surgery, the doctor said that there was a seventy percent success. He could repress his nerves and provide Susie his support then. What if the person undergoing the surgery was Susie? What if the person with the seventy percent chance of success was Susie...

Julian could not be certain if he could push through it.

You could say that he was selfish or cold, but Jacob was never as important as Susie was to him.

When Julian looked like he was silently in pain, Susan blinked. "Hey, are you mad? I can give you another kiss if that's what you want, you petty person.” Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Susan was leaning in for another peck as she spoke when Julian suddenly stood up and swept Susan into his embrace strongly.

His hug came so suddenly that Susan was stupefied. She hugged him back despite the puzzlement.

"Julian, what's the matter?"

Julian hugged her in silence for a while, taking in the shampoo fragrance on her hair.

"What's up?" Susan asked again.

"Nothing." Julian let go of her, his emotions quieting down. "I just suddenly miss you after not seeing you for one night."