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Chapter 852
Chapter 852
Chapter 852
Chapter 852 Wishful thinking
Following Melissa’s advice, Harley sat on a corridor bench, as if an enemy was approaching and he was some sort of guard looking over Nina. Melissa had left him and returned inside the ward and Muray Gibson had just entered the ward some minutes ago with tie glasses on a tray; one filled to the brim with water, the other filled with some sort of juice.
From the ward which was initially silent, he could hear echoes of voices conversing accompanied by muffled sounds of laughter and he couldn’t help but smile. As long as Nina was safe and sound and happy, it didn’t matter to him if she never forgave him.
Because he spent a greater half of the previous night in deep thought, he began to feel a little tired. But that couldn’t be compared to the emptiness he felt in his heart anytime he thought about resolving the issue between him and Nina. Now that their daughter has already been born, at least for the sake of their child, it was high time whatever misunderstandings and grievances between them be resolved.
While Harley was still buried in thought, footsteps approached where he sat. Sighing, he raised his bowed head only to see Tom walking slowly with an insulated lunch box in his hand. Seeing this man appear, the tiredness on Harley’s face disappeared instantly and was replaced with an alarmed and furious look.
“What are you doing here? Nina doesn’t need your care!” Harley blurted out, jumping to his feet.
Looking at Harley coldly, Tom replied disdainfully: “Must you always display your shamelessness? Why can’t I come over to see Nina?” He paused to raise the insulation box in his hand, and said with a bit of provocation: “Don’t you see it? This is the pregnancy meal I made for Nina. I’m not like you who only boast but don’t do anything for Nina!”
Harley knew where this was heading to. It was just one of Tom’s numerous ploys in an attempt to try to win Nina’s heart over. Sensing this, Timothy stopped at the door to prevent Tom from entering, staring at him coldly and warning: “Nina is my daughter’s mother. You’d better get away before I do my worst!”
“Don’t be too confident in yourself,” Tom retorted. “In the eyes of Nina’s parents, you are a scumbag who is not as good as I am for their daughter.”
The two spent the next minute abusing each other verbally in front of the door of the ward. Soon enough Nina heard Tom quarrelling with Harley in the hallway and had to ask Melissa to open the door and invite him to avoid publicity.
“Mr. Warren, Nina let you in,” Melissa said, smiling at Tom while casting a sympathetic look at Harley.
Hearing this, Tom sent Harley a cold star and satirized smirk before entering the ward with brisk steps. Seeing this, Harley felt jealous and sullen in his heart. He wanted to get angry but had nowhere to vent, so he could only sit back on the bench and let his hurt tear him apart from the inside.
A few minutes later, Melissa and Murray said their goodbyes and left, and Harley was left on the edge of his seat. He wanted to rush into the ward to confront Tom but was worried that Nina’s mood would be affected. Creeping to the door of the ward, Harley saw Tom feeding Nina breakfast through the crack of the door and his heart threatened to burst through his chest in rage.
“Nina, now you need to supplement nutrition. I made it, especially for you. You should eat more,” advises Tom, being the gentleman he was.
After drinking a mouthful of porridge, Nina said embarrassedly, “Tom, I’ll be taken care of by my parents for the next few days in the hospital. You still have to go to work, so don’t run around every day.”
“I come here out of love. I do not feel burdened at all,” replied
Tom, his voice extremely gentle as he helped Nina to peel the boiled egg. “As long as you want, I can take care of you and your daughter for a lifetime!”
Upon hearing Tom’s offer, Nina didn’t know how to answer. But after some thought, she politely refused.
“Tom, you are still young, you have your own life, I can’t drag you down with my children.”
“Nina, no one is dragging anyone down. If it wasn’t for Mr.
Timothy, I’m sure I would have been a father long ago,” Tom replied, sighing reluctantly. He was ready to reunite with Nina and was willing to accept the newborn child.
Outside the door, Harley’s eyes and ears grew red and he fought down the urge to rush at Tom out and beat him up to a pulp. Clenching his fists tightly, Harley realized that if he did not fight now, not only would he lose Nina, but even his daughter would grow up beside her adoptive father. Before he could swing his attack into motion, a familiar voice from behind interrupted him, sending cold chills down his spine.
“Harley, are you here to pester my daughter again?”
The voice belonged to Nina’s father; Kasen Paul, and the sound of the question, Harley froze and when he finally regained his strength, he turned to see Nina’s parents glaring at him.
This time Harley acted very calmly. He knew he was the least favoured in Kasen Paul’s eyes, so he tried as much as possible to remain calm.
“No, Mr. Timothy. I just came to see Nina, and I am relieved to know that she woke up.”
“You shouldn’t pretend to be a good person at this time. If you cared about her, you wouldn’t have done anything wrong to her when she was pregnant!” Ariana, Nina’s mother, spat, curling her lips in disdain.
Harley couldn’t argue. Even though he had stayed sober and was completely off liquor for the past couple of months, there was no way he could prove his innocence.
“Sorry Mrs. Ariana…”
Harley suppressed all his anger and knew he had to walk off, down the hallway and out of the hospital. But deep down, he didn’t want Tom to succeed in snatching Nina from him.
Just before leaving, Harley smiled at Kasen Paul and said calmly, “Then I won’t disturb Nina for now. Anyway, Tom is taking care of her, so it’s not convenient for me to enter.”
Kasen Paul was stunned when he heard Tom’s name.
“What did you say? Tom is in the ward?”
Ariana’s expression also changed, and without waiting for Harley to respond, she hurried in followed by Kasen Paul who en saw
Tom eating with Nina, and he was furious.
“Tom, my daughter doesn’t need you to take care of her! Take your things and leave immediately!” novelbin
Kasen Paul was also in a panic, seeing Tom sitting beside the hospital bed in a daze. He went straight up and dragged Tom aside.
“I told you a long time ago that my daughter will never marry you in her life. Stop wishful thinking!” Kasen Paul’s eyes were red, and he was interrupted by the shouting of Nina before he could finish speaking.
“Dad! Tom didn’t do anything wrong, please don’t be so violent!”
At this time, Nina was beginning to spot a headache. She knew that his parents did not like Tom from the outset and they looked down on him mainly because of his rural origin.
But Kasen Paul turned a deaf ear to his daughter’s protest, grabbed
Tom’s collar and scolded: “You should die. A poor boy like you is not worthy of Nina, you don’t want to eat swan meat anymore!” Almost immediately he pushed Tom into the corridor despite Nina’s pleas from the bed.
Seeing Tom being kicked out of the ward was Harley. He enjoyed it as Tom stumbled on the floor beside him. Harley used the medium to vent his anger by hurling the cup of cold water at him.
“I warned you a long time ago, didn’t I? Chasing after Nina would only result in you humiliating yourself!” Harley mocked and was about to take a step forward when he saw Ariana bring out the insulation box.
“Don’t harass my daughter again, Nina won’t eat what you make!” Mrs Ariana warned. She then tucked the incubator into Tom’s hand and closed the door of the ward tightly behind her.
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