I waited for three days before William came back.
And I was well prepared during those three days.
“Is it good to live in a car?”
William opened the door, and I asked him with a smile.
He glared at me and changed his slippers to wash his hands.
I knowingly asked, of course, but that was exactly what I wanted.
Was this perhaps a form of revenge?
By the time William walked out, I was sitting on the couch waiting for him.
“I see you.”
He raised his eyebrows again out of habit. “What do you mean?”
“That day, at the hospital, I saw you and Abril.‘
I was straight to the point. “You’re accompanying her to do a maternity checkup, aren’t you?”
From these abnormal behaviors of mine lately, William had already guessed that I should know something.
But he was still a little surprised to hear the name Abril coming out of my mouth.
After saying that, I waited for William to explain.
I fantasized that he would coax me like he used to, that he would blink his wet eyes and beg me to forgive him.
But he didn’t.
“I do want a child.”
Hearing William’s words, I felt like my heart was torn into pieces.
“Honey, I want kids. She’s got…
“And I want her to give birth to my baby.”
I didn’t say anything, and after a long time, I suddenly clapped loudly.
As I laughed out loud, teardrops continued to fall from my eyes.
“Well, William, I’m happy for you!”
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William seemed to realize something and suddenly became alert.
“Just come to me, Audrey. Don’t hurt the child.”
I stopped applauding, and my whole body was still shaking.
“That’s all you ask?
“William, what do you take me for?”
William spread his hands.
“What do you expect me to say when you’ve already found out the truth?”
He sat down on the couch and looked at me with a smirking expression.
“At least, it’s much easier for her to get pregnant than you do.”
I nodded seriously.
“So that’s how you think.”
I still hoped that William could come around.
But I was wrong.
Instead of feeling guilty or sorry, he admitted his affairs plausibly. 1
He thought I couldn’t do anything to him.
But at least he could have cared about my feelings. Why did he hit me when I was already down?
“William, I’d asked you a thousand times if you wanted a child.”
I said in a broken voice.
“And you answered me a thousand times that you didn’t want children. So how can you back out so easily?”
William didn’t dare to look me straight in the eye.
“I’m sorry, okay?”
The apology I cherished and cared about was just a flippant shrug in his case.
His evading took my last hope away.
I lost. I lost completely.
“You’re cheating!”
I shouted hysterically at William, who was now wearing a poker face.
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“No matter what you say, I will keep that baby.”
With that, he went into the bedroom and took the initiative to end the conversation.
I looked at William’s back. His back gradually overlapped with the William who loved me in my memory.
And yet, there was a piece that didn’t match up in any way.
The next day I showed up at the door of Abril’s company.
“Hello, I’m looking for Abril.”
The receptionist asked me with a smile, “May I ask your name?”
I answered, “William.”
Abril saw me as she walked out, and her smile froze.
I offered my hand. “You should know who I am.”
“How did you find me?”
I
Abril turned pale and unconsciously protected her belly with her hands.
“You investigated me? You know, you are breaking the law.”
I said, “Oh, so it’s not illegal to have a child with a married man?”
Abril’s body began to tremble. “What do you want?”
What did I want?
It didn’t seem to have occurred to me.
Before I came, I imagined a million images of how angry, desperate, even mad I would be.
But I was surprisingly calm when I saw her.
“I want to give this back to you.”
I took out that lipstick. “Next time you drop it in his car, I won’t help you keep it.”
Abril revealed a hint of a mocking smile. “This one… I’m going to throw it anyway. But he likes this color.”
