His eyes were full of concern, but his words were trying to distance himself from me.
The child was only three months old and it was extremely abnormal for him not to cry or make a fuss.
At this moment, he was lying in my arms with a pale face.
But he never looked at the child from beginning to end.
When I thought about the day when he just returned home, he would get nervous as if facing a great enemy whenever Ruth's child pouted.
I was so devastated that I wanted to take my child away immediately.
But my body was already at the end of its strength and even walking a few more steps would make me so weak that I was covered in cold sweats.
After thinking it over again and again, I suppressed the pain in my heart and forced a smile at him. “Nothing, I was just too worried about the child and wanted to come and see him.”
Linwood breathed a sigh of relief and skillfully took the child from my hands, but he did not even bother to take a look at it and just threw it into the crib.
“Jacquelyn, don’t worry. Linwood is my biological brother and Noelle is his only blood relative. I will definitely treat him like my own.”
Looking at my son's face wrinkled in pain, I could not hold it back any longer, raised my tearful eyes and asked with a trembling voice, “Is Linwood... really dead?
“Or are you Linwood and you just pretended to be my uncle to deceive me?”
The air seemed to freeze in an instant and it was extremely quiet.
After a long silence, the uncle smiled perfunctorily and asked, “Jacquelyn, are you sick and confused?
“Linwood has been dead for more than three months. I am your uncle, how could I lie to you?”
I looked up at his pretending to be sincere and felt a chill all over my body.
Obviously, he had the same facial features as Linwood, even twins could not be so similar.
It was not like I did not have doubts.
But every time I see him and Ruth being so affectionate, I could only suppress the emotions surging in my heart.
I could not forget how deeply Linwood loved me.
Naturally, I would not believe that he would treat other women with the same love.
But that time, the flash of guilt and remorse in his eyes made me realize it very clearly.
The man who called himself my uncle was the husband I had been thinking about day and night.
Tears fell silently and I could not help but want to ask him why he betrayed me.
But when the words came to my lips, I was interrupted by the weak cry of the child.
I looked sharply toward the crib. Only then did I notice that a strange blush appeared on Noelle's face.
I placed my shaking hands on his forehead.
But the moment I touched him, I could not help but scream, “It's so hot, Linwood, please save our child!”
I cried so hard that I was incoherent and Linwood was so panicked that he did not know what to do.
“Jacquelyn, don’t worry, I’ll go to the hospital with you now!”
I stumbled after him and prepared to go out.
But Ruth was holding a pregnancy test stick and standing in front of us with a shy look on her face as she said, “Honey, I think I’m pregnant. You can be a father again!”
Linwood pushed me away, picked up Ruth in ecstasy and walked towards the bedroom.
“You just got pregnant. If you don’t lie down in bed and rest, what if you hurt the baby in your belly?”
The look on his face was one I knew all too well.
When he first learned that I was pregnant, he was also so excited and restrained.
I bit my lips tightly and swallowed the blood in my mouth.
When he passed by me, he looked at me with an apologetic look on his face when he said, “Jacquelyn, your aunt is pregnant, I have to stay and take care of her.
“I will arrange for someone to take you to the hospital. I will come to see you and the child when I am free.”
