At the company’s annual meeting, employees were giving their award acceptance speeches.
Hayden Summer, my fiancée’s childhood friend, stood on the stage, excitedly thanking heaven and earth.
Finally, he said, “I want to especially thank one person, Jasmine Fletcher. Thank her for letting me become a father. Yes, the child in her belly is mine!”
As soon as he said that, the employees present were all shocked, while I just stood there, dumbfounded.
After the annual meeting, Jasmine came to explain to me that she really was pregnant, but she hadn’t had time to tell me yet and it wasn’t what I thought.
“That day, Hayden and I went on a business trip together. We drank too much and ended up doing something we shouldn’t have…”
“Hayden and I are very familiar with each other; we don’t have any romantic feelings. He just doesn’t plan to get married in the future because he has a fear of marriage. But he wants this child, so I plan to keep it. But no matter what, I’m still the child’s mother. I can’t just have the baby and abandon it. So I want you to wait for me for two years. After the child is born and I’ve taken care of them for a while, once the child is a bit older, I’ll stop taking care of them. Then, can we get married! “
As Jasmine said this, she looked at me with a pitiful expression.
I smiled but said nothing.
Seeing that I didn’t object, Jasmine nodded with relief and then turned to leave with Hayden.
As for me, on the way home, I ran into my female colleague, Yara.
“Zion, I like you. Can we be together?”
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I had been with Jasmine for three years. We were supposed to get engaged next week, but unexpectedly, something like this happened.
During the time we were together, I took good care of her, holding her as if she might break, treating her delicately as if she might melt away.
Every day, I would prepare a different breakfast for her, carefully balanced for nutrition.
Even after she left with Hayden, she didn’t forget to send me messages.
[Zion, don’t forget to prepare an extra breakfast tomorrow.]
Besides being our colleague, Hayden had another identity. He was Jasmine’s childhood friend. The two of them reuniting after a long time apart might have been the trigger that brought them together.
Jasmine had a great figure and liked to wear low-cut tops. Every time I saw Hayden staring at the pale expanse of her chest in the office, I couldn’t help but feel this guy had bad intentions.
So I reminded Jasmine many times to pay attention to her clothing and not always wear such revealing outfits. It didn’t look good.
But she didn’t care at all and said to me, “Why is it that ever since I’ve been with you, I can’t just wear whatever I want? Aren’t you being a little too petty? I have the freedom to dress as I like.”
“You're just overthinking it. Hayden and I are way too familiar. We’re just buddies. He wouldn’t have any improper intentions toward me.”
All of this had been just Jasmine’s trickery, but at the time, I had believed it without question. Only now did I suddenly realize the truth but it’s not too late.
Then Jasmine sent me another message. [Oh, by the way, Hayden doesn’t eat spicy food. Don’t add chili.]
I looked at the screen and smiled foolishly. Was Jasmine thinking I was stupid, or was I really that naive?
Still, I needed to clear things up between us. Plus, I had to go back to work. Seeing each other every day, how hard could it be to prepare one extra breakfast? I’d just do it.
The next morning, I bought some breakfast downstairs and took it to the office.
After arriving at the company, I tossed the breakfast onto Jasmine’s desk.
Originally, I had planned to resign today, but after thinking it through, the one who made the mistake wasn’t me, so why should I just walk away?
Jasmine and Hayden walked into the office together, chatting and laughing.
A few minutes later, Jasmine called me into her office.
