Nathan was around, so I could not cry too loudly.
After I made dinner and put Nathan to sleep, I found myself unable to fall asleep.
I could not understand. Why would Silas lie to me?
Just who was he?
Soon, I got the answers to the two questions.
When it was 2 a.m., my phone rang.
I answered it and heard Silas’s voice. He sounded drunk. “Honey, pick me up?”
In order to earn more money, Silas worked in sales.
He always kept his clients’ company until past midnight and near the crack of dawn. Whenever he got drunk, I rode my e-bike to pick him up.
Every time I saw his cheeks flushed due to alcohol, I found myself loving it, but I pitied him too.
I thought I was really fortunate to have met him, but that time around, when I went to pick him up, I felt a myriad of emotions.
I did not ride on my e-bike. Instead, I got a cab.
I arrived at the destination ten minutes later.
Silas sat in a room of the restaurant. The door was slightly open.
I looked through the gap and found a large group of people sitting inside.
They all looked rich and had high statuses. Silas sat in the middle of the group.
I saw a famous celebrity lighting a cigarette for Silas. Once he did, Silas flicked off the ash, and the celebrity used his hands as an ashtray.
Everyone laughed.
Someone said to Silas, “Mr. Lewis, when are you going to stop pretending to be poor? Your father has been asking me to tell you to return to the right path. Do you really like living as a poor person, or have you actually fallen for that poor woman?”
Silas scoffed and hissed, “No way. Honestly, I’m done with that sort of life. Every time I see that woman, I feel my skin itch. She’s just so dirty, even after she takes a shower.
“I’ve never seen someone as crude as she is. She works at the construction site every day. It’s so embarrassing.”
What he said gave the people the confidence to insult me.
They started laughing.
I looked down at my hands.
Due to the constant manual labor, my once-delicate hands had turned rough.
My skin was also so dark that it seemed to be a part of my natural skin tone.
I could not get rid of that dark skin tone no matter how much I washed myself.
It was no wonder why Silas refused to be intimate with me anymore after I gave birth to Nathan.
I thought it was because he was under a lot of stress, but it was because he found me dirty.
Those words were like knives that stabbed into my heart.
I thought we were in love, but to him, it was all a game.
After they finished insulting me, they talked about Nathan.
Someone said, “Mr. Lewis, you can dump that woman easily enough, but what about your son? He’s your flesh and blood. With a child binding you two, it won’t be so easy for you two to get separated.”
I thought Silas would show some tenderness toward Nathan, but what he said next shocked me.
“That kid has been sick from birth. How could I ever want that sort of kid as my son? I’ll give her some money and send her off. My son has to be healthy.”
My legs nearly gave out under me, and I almost fell.
So, that was what he thought about Nathan.
It was no wonder why he always ignored Nathan’s requests to hug him when he was home.
I always thought it was because he was jealous that Nathan was close to me, but it was because he did not want Nathan!
But if he did not want Nathan, why did he stop me when I tried to abort him?
He could treat my love like trash and consider the whole thing a game, but how could he do that to my son?
Nathan loved his father!
He longed for his father’s attention.
I slowly squatted down and bit down on the back of my hand.
My tears fell.
My heart hurt so much that it almost shattered to pieces.
Through their conversation, I learned that Silas was actually the son of the richest man in the country.
His family became a powerful family one hundred years ago and had been in the limelight over the past few years.
So, he was actually someone this rich?
And Spring was Silas’s first love and crush.
But when Silas tried to win her heart, Spring fell in love with a poor boy.
Silas could not understand it. How could there be anything fun in dating a poor person?
That was why he chose me. He wanted to try out this “true love” thing Spring talked about.
At present, Spring had come back after realizing the harsh truth of reality, and Silas began thinking about getting a divorce with me.
It was no wonder he could readily buy a mansion worth 40 million dollars for Spring but refused to pay for Nathan’s surgery.
If Nathan had received his surgery when he was younger, his condition would have been much better.
The last time we went to the hospital, the doctor told us that it would be too late for him if he did not get surgery soon.
At that time, Silas had said he would get another job.
How could he be so cruel?
Nathan was his son!
