Faux Vows, True Desires
Chapter 80

Fiona paused, then went on, "If you're really pregnant, you can choose to have an abortion. If you don't want to, have the baby. Your dad and I will help take care of it. We won't let the child affect your chances of getting married again."

"Mom."

"Lucy, don't blame me for being harsh. I'm doing this for your own good."

Lucinda sighed helplessly, "Mom, you should let me speak too."

"Alright, go on."

Fiona immediately gave her daughter a chance to speak.

"Stefan doesn't want to divorce me."

The current situation was that Lucinda honestly told her mother the reason and process.

After hearing her daughter's honesty, Fiona felt both angry and distressed, yet guilty.

She poked Lucinda's forehead, blaming, "I urged you to marry fearing that you'd be hurt deeply by George Mitchell. I know you didn't want to get married. Did I force you to marry apart from nagging you? Instead, you thought of hiring a fake boyfriend to fool me because I nagged."

"You hired someone to pretend to be your husband, fine. But you naively went to register for marriage. Do you think signing that agreement is enough? You should only believe three out of ten things men say." "Once you register for marriage, you're legally husband and wife. It's easy for you to get married, but it's hard for you to divorce."

Fiona scolded her. Suddenly, she felt something was wrong and asked doubtfully, "How could Stefan cheat you into registration? I feel like he... seems to have feelings for you, taking every chance to take you to the Civil Affairs Bureau?"

No wonder she thought so.

Although she didn't know Stefan's real identity until tonight, Stefan was her son's college classmate. She heard a lot about Stefan from her son.

Such an excellent man would definitely not lack women.

He readily agreed to Lucinda's request and coaxed Lucinda to register for marriage. Fiona always felt that Stefan had set a trap waiting for her daughter to jump in.

Lucinda blushed, bowed her head, and said softly, "Stefan said he has liked me for a long time."

Fiona was speechless.

Tonight's information was too much, making her feel overwhelmed.

After a while, she spoke again, still insisting, "Divorce!"

"Mom, I don't want to divorce either. I think Stefan is quite good. I feel comfortable with him, and I like him more and more."

"You... Have you forgotten the pain George brought you?"

"Mom, how can George and Stefan be mentioned in the same breath? George flatters the powerful, while Stefan himself redeems the powerful, he will not be like George."

Fiona coldly said, "Stefan will have a lot of pursuers. Ms. Scott tonight is one of them. Didn't you hear Ms. Scott say that her family and the Anderson family are friends, and she and Stefan have known each other since childhood? You will have many such competitors, can you handle it?"

Lucinda was silent.

Fiona sighed, gave her daughter a hug, "I won't force you, you need to think it over. You and Stefan have a big gap in your living environment. At first, you may feel very sweet. You may think he can protect you. But after a long time, passion will fade, and feelings will also fade. He may start to get tired of you because of your different living standards. Unless you continue to study hard to approach his life." This would be very tiring.

Fiona let go of her daughter.

"Let's go home."

Lucinda nodded silently.

Fiona didn't stay downtown anymore.

She asked her son to take her back to her hometown immediately.

That night Lucinda refused to let Stefan into her room. She wanted to think calmly about her and Stefan's future.

Stefan understood that the real reason Lucinda's mother opposed them being together was that he came from a very wealthy family.

This is ironic. His family did not oppose him and Lucinda being together. But after Lucinda's family knew his identity, they all opposed them being together.

Is the Anderson family really that scary?

Lucinda thought about this for a long time before she fell asleep exhausted.

As soon as she fell asleep, she started dreaming.

She dreamed of that radiant woman again, sometimes she would hold her and call her baby, sometimes she would hold a doll and call it baby.

She was halfway through her dream, dreaming that someone had taken the doll from the mad woman. The woman was crying madly for her baby, and the crying sound was heartbreaking. Lucinda didn't know why, she just felt a dull pain in her chest, as if a heavy stone was pressing on her chest, making her feel breathless.

When she woke up, she found her face was wet.

She wiped it with her hand and found it was all tears.

Her pillow was wet with her tears.

Why would she have the same dream?

Although the dream was not real, the pain of the mad woman losing her baby was real. She could feel the woman's despair in her dream, which made her heartache, as if it happened to her. This was a strange feeling.

Lucinda sat up and wiped her tears again. It took her some time to calm herself down, then she picked up her phone from the computer desk to check the time.

It was three in the morning.

She couldn't sleep again after she woke up. She watched the news for a while, then felt her eyes were a bit sore, so she went back to sleep.

Meanwhile, in the big house of the Blue family in Skywatch, the tranquility of the night was broken by one scream after another.

"My baby is gone, my baby is gone!"

Janice Blue of the Blue family ran out of her room with disheveled hair and bare feet, like a mad woman. Then she ran around the entire house, crying for her baby while running. Her crying was particularly harsh in the quiet night, but it was heartbreaking.

That was a heartbreaking pain.

A mother losing her child is like having her heart cut out.

Their world will lose light and become dark.

"Lady, what the hell are you doing in the middle of the night? You don't wanna sleep, but others have to."

The servants, awakened by the ruckus, rushed in to grab Janice.

Some were muttering under their breath, their words dripping with annoyance towards Janice.

Everyone knew that the head of the family had run out of patience and tolerance for Janice.

He could leave Janice at any time and marry a new wife.

Now, he's quite chummy with the daughter of the Porter family. Ms. Porter has free rein in the Blue household, like she's the new lady of the house.

The Porter girl knows how to win people over too, always bringing loads of gifts for the servants of the Blue family. They'd do her bidding once they'd accepted her gifts.

Everyone saw it clear as day. Ms. Porter, the future lady of the house, wanted to get rid of the unhinged Janice.

Janice wasn't exactly stable. Even though her son was by her side, the infighting within the Blue family was intense. It was anyone's guess whether Ethan Blue would smoothly inherit the estate. As for the daughter of the Blue family who was taken away, there's been no news for over two decades. She's probably long dead.

Even if she were alive, there were those who'd rather see her dead.

Who'd want her to return and inherit half of the Blue fortune?

The rest members of the Blue family disagreed, neither did the Porter family's daughter. So, the young lady who disappeared over two decades ago, she ain't coming back.

The servants quickly grabbed the frantically running Janice.

"Let go of me! I can't replace my child! I need to replace my child! Where the hell did you hide my child? My child, my child-ah!"

Someone yanked Janice's hair, and she screamed in pain.