No Feelings

"Yes." Esther hesitated for a moment, then walked to the sofa beside him and sat down.

"What did my mother tell you?"

"A lot."

"Let me take a guess." Terence pretended to seriously think for a moment, "In addition to telling you to take good care of me, she also asked you to continue to persuade me to go back to City R for a paternity test. Am I right?"

Esther looked at him and said, "She also said that you are not young anymore. It is time to give birth to a son or a daughter."

Terence smiled scornfully, "Then she asked for it."

Esther continued to look at him. After a while, she said, "Terence, can I ask you a question?"

"Go ahead."

"Why do you not want a child?" Esther paused and said, "I had always thought that you felt that we were not close enough and should not have a child so early, but now..."

She did not finish her words and just stared at him.

Terence asked back, "Why don't you think that now?"