Chapter 5: Shame on you?

"Mr. Ethan, there is one more thing."

The nurse's eyes flicked over Thea and Ethan for a moment, and said with difficulty, "There is a mother and son looking for you below the hospital. Our security guards in the security office have been driving them away for quite a while, but the mother and child just won't go away, saying that they'll live in front of the hospital until they see you, so why don't you go down and take a look?"

Ethan was not very good-tempered when it came to outsiders.

"Don't bother me with this kind of thing, contact the police directly."

"But ..." the nurse hesitated a little.

Ethan narrowed his eyes impatiently, "The governor needs an appointment to see me, why, what is she?"

The nurse's face reddened.

Thea, however, sensed the subtlety and interjected, "What's wrong with them? Did you ask?"

The nurse awkwardly bowed her head, "Said yes, but I think ... I have to speak to Mr. Ethan alone ... a little more appropriate."

The nurse had good intentions.

But it poked Ethan's reverse scale.

In his heart, there was nothing that Thea couldn't know.

He said in a cold voice, "Have the bodyguard call the person up."

Ten minutes later.

A mother and son were guided by the bodyguard and tiptoed in.

The mother was in her thirties, but probably didn't live in very good conditions, her face was ashen, she was dressed like she was in her forties, and when she lifted her head, she revealed empty eyes and a hair-tipped chin, which was a little creepy to look at, but she should have been a beautiful woman when she was young.

The child, only five or six years old and clinging to the corner of his mother's coat, came in and saw Ethan and timidly called out-

"Daddy ..."

The crowd froze.

The previous nurse then explained in a difficult way, "This lady said that this is your child, if you do not believe it, you can also do a paternity test ..."

Ethan's face was uglier than a cloud.

"What blind b*llsh*t!"

Thea also thought it was ridiculous, but the kid's features did look a bit similar to Ethan's ...

"DIRECTOR-GENERAL, I know you have an honorable status, it's okay if you don't remember, let me remind you, five years ago, at the Mosong Clubhouse, you drank too much ... and talked to me ... The next day, you gave me a check for half a million dollars ..."

The woman said while pulling out a crumpled check from her bag, looking yellowed and a bit old.

She held up the check, sneering and self-deprecating smile, "Since you do not want to give money, why pretend to be a good person? Back then, I gave half a million dollars with a flick of the hand, but when I took it to the bank to withdraw the money, the bank manager said that the check was not useful at all!"

"Two months later I found out I was pregnant, and called according to the phone number you gave me, not only did they scold me over there, but they also warned me about extortion, and that if I dared to pester them again, they would put me in the station ..."

The woman grabbed the child by her side, with a crazy hatred in her eyes, "I hate ah ... you are so rich, why do you still want to bully a bitter person like me? Now the child I gave birth to raise! You Ethan always can not kill people, right? I also don't want more, 30,000 a month alimony, until Cora eighteen years old! If you don't pay ... I'll take it to court! Let YOUR company, let you Ethan lose his name - um! Let go of me!"

The bodyguard, fearing that she would continue to spill her guts in the hospital room, grabbed her by the arm and yanked her out of the room.

The child named Cora saw this and bit up at the bodyguard's hand.

The bodyguard shook it so violently that the child's body flew out and hit the hospital bed hard.

Thea was caught off guard by such a collision, the wound in her lower body once again flooded with tearing pain, she grasped Ethan's hand with a pale face ...

But saw Ethan dead staring at Cora, seemingly recalling something.

"So it's you guys ..."

He let out a long sigh.

A week later, Thea moved back into Ethan's family.

Back at Ethan's family together, in addition to the medical team dedicated to Thea, were Cora and his birth mother.

At this point, what doesn't Thea understand?

It turns out that in these years, hidden behind the unfailing love, is what she has never known, the real Ethan.

He actually has a child ... still so big ...

Then her behavior of taking the abortion pill, in his eyes, is not very stupid? Ridiculous?

He was never short of children ah ...

But what about her? Thought she could get back at Ethan by killing her own child?

Thea just thinks the world is ridiculous and laughable.

Especially at this point-

Thea, who was eating breakfast in the dining room, saw Ethan coming downstairs, and before she could react, the child named Cora had already jumped over and hugged Ethan's thigh.

"Daddy!"

Ethan bowed his head, "I told you, don't call me daddy, call me uncle."

Cora pouted in aggravation, "Uncle Ethan ..."

Cora's birth mother's name was Demi, and in just a few days, her chipped cheeks were much fuller.

Demi held Cora's jacket and stood next to her in a formal manner, saying respectfully, "Mr. Ethan ..."

Ethan hmmm'd and sat beside Thea, saying gently, "Breakfast not to your liking today? Why did you eat so little?"

Thea pulled an expression with difficulty, "Not hungry."

Ethan sniffed and called the housekeeper-

"Get a new batch of people in the kitchen."

The voice is cold and dictatorial.

Thea thumps her spoon on the tabletop, "Ethan, what's gotten into you again!"

Ethan looks at her, a gentle love in his eyes, as if he wasn't the one who just snapped, "Get a new cook that you like."

Thea took a deep breath and suppressed her depression, "I like it very much."

Ethan then gave her a piece of fried dumpling.

"Eat more."

Thea forced herself to hold back her nausea and chewed twice, and was about to swallow when the feeling of regurgitation came tumbling over her ...

"Vomit ..."

Thea threw up all over him.

Ethan didn't half resent it and tenderly wiped the corners of her mouth.

"Sack the person in charge of purchasing as well."

He said in a warm voice.

Thea grabbed the chair handle violently for a long time, and then let go feebly.

Three years and he hadn't changed a bit.

What was the point of pretending to be affectionate?

Thea skimmed over Demi's mother and son out of the corner of her eye and felt nothing but mockery.

"Ethan, I'm going out." She said.

"Have you forgotten what day it is?" Thea's voice held the pleasure of being evil.

"It's Noah's memorial day."

Ethan's hand wiped the corner of Thea's mouth in a lurch.

He had indeed forgotten.

In past years, Clara had reminded him, but this year he'd dropped Clara off at the station and was in the process of compiling information to prosecute her, and the latter was too preoccupied with herself to think about her long-dead son, naturally.

"I'll send someone to pay my respects to him." Ethan said in a faint voice.

"I'm going on my own."

Ethan frowned, "Don't you be ridiculous."

"Are you afraid of something?" Thea looked at him with an expressionless face, and then at the Demi mother and son, "What? You're afraid of being known for what you've done?"

Ethan laughed at her exasperation.

Throwing the handkerchief in his hand towards the table, "Fine, I'll take you there."

Calling on Demi's mother and son again, "You guys follow too."

*****

In the autumn wind, large yellowed sycamore leaves along the narrow coastal boulevard were swept back by the speeding cars, and then fell down gently.

Noah's headstone is on an island off the coast.

In Ethan's family, people who died were usually buried here.

Ethan originally planned to throw Noah's ashes into the sea. However, he couldn't stand Thea's hard begging, so he ordered Noah to be buried in the corner of the tomb cluster.

At this moment, Thea looked at the greenish-gray tombstone, and the small letters on the tombstone that were about to be washed away by the rain, and tears fell like rain.

"Noah ..."

She crumpled to the ground, the whistling sea breeze in her ears.

Ethan suddenly suggested, "Why don't we recognize Cora under his name, and have a grave sweeper in the future."

Thea looked at him incredulously, "Ethan, do you still want to be shameless?!"