As a woman, if she suddenly heard the news that she was pregnant, she would first feel frightenedand disbelieve it. Then she would slowly accept the reality and calm down. Then she would decidehow to deal with it.

"Crystal, the remaining 9 pregnancy test kits have been used. They all show two red bars. Pleaseaccept the reality.”

Christina saw that Crystal seemed to be frightened by the sudden news. Crystal put her right handon her abdomen and sat nearby in a daze. She fell silent.

"Are you not happy about getting pregnant?” Christina sat beside her, "Shall I accompany you tothe hospital to make a B-scan ultrasonography now?"

"No, no." Crystal came back to her senses and quickly refused.

"I just think it comes a little too suddenly.”

As a person who had delivered children, Christina advised, "This is normal. After giving birth to thechild, when you hold the baby, you will start to feel the wonderfulness of life. It's really incrediblethat a living little creature can come out of your belly."

Crystal smiled gently, "Little baby is very cute. It is so happy to imagine holding my own baby."

In an instant, Crystal felt that her life was fulfilled and filled with happiness.

"But," she turned to Christina, "Can you help me keep it a secret for a while? I don't want Chandlerto know it for the time being.”

Christina was a doer. She was holding her cell phone and preparing to take photos of the two redbars shown by pregnancy test sticks. She wanted to share these pictures on Instagram, so as toshare the happy event with Charles and the others.

"Why?" Christina put away her phone, "Are you afraid that this would be a misunderstanding andthat Chandler will be disappointed?”

"No." Crystal felt somehow bitter.

As Crystal spoke, she lowered her head, "I am afraid that he wouldn't be prepared. I am afraid thathe will say he wants to abort the child...”

Christina slapped the table angrily, "Chandler wants to go to hell, doesn't he?"

"We've discussed it before. Geoffrey is still young. We are afraid that giving birth to another babywill affect his mind..."

"Geoffrey is in primary school now. He's very smart and knows everything. You don't have to worryabout children fighting for the family's love at all. If you tell Geoffrey properly, he will accept itslowly. The Stephenson family is too protective of Geoffrey."

Crystal smiled bitterly. She thought so too. Geoffrey was so smart that he probably wouldn'tcompete with the baby for the love. But Chandler and the others insisted on it because they wereafraid of breaking Geoffrey's fragile heart.

Her hand gently stroked her abdomen, where a little baby was nurtured. It was her own child"After I go to the hospital for a B-scan ultrasonography and I'm really sure I'm pregnant, I'll replace achance to tell them.” Crystal was surprised and also happy about the sudden pregnancy, and shebelieved that Chandler and the others would accept it gladly.

Since Crystal said so, Christina then did not want to interfere with matters in the Stephenson family.While sending Crystal away, Christina reminded her, "Remember to tell me if anything happens.Don't just give in to others foolishly. If people in the Stephenson family mistreat you, you must tellme."

Crystal smiled, "Ok."

They waved hands at each other. After that, she drove away carefully.

Crystal didn't want anyone to know about her pregnancy for the time being. Christina quickly put allthe pregnancy test sticks she had used into a black bag and tied a few dead knots. She personallythrew the bag into the garbage disposal box downstairs.

In the afternoon, Nanny Faang told her that Patrick would return from his business trip and wouldbe able to rush back to the Hopkins family to have dinner with her tonight.

Hearing this, Christina was very happy. A short period of separation between a newlywed couplewould enhance their relationship more. Recently, she had no misunderstanding with Patrick. Shealso wanted to seriously discuss the issue of a second child with him.

On the path from Landy to the Main Residence for dinner, Nancy ran towards her in a panic,"Junior, Junior Mrs. Hopkins!"

Christina turned around and saw that she was panting, "What's wrong?"

Nancy stopped running, put her hands on her waist, and took a deep breath. She spokeintermittently, "I, I've found something new. You want me to pay attention to Miss Brianna'ssituation...”

"What's the matter?” Christina had not taken Brianna seriously recently.

"I don't know either. I saw Miss Brianna act weirdly and she was looking for something in the trashcan..."

"Why did she look for the trash can? What did she want?"

"It seems to be a black plastic bag. I didn't dare to go forward and see it clearly.” Nancy looked alittle strange. She ignored her identity of being a servant and stood on tiptoe and whispered inChristina's ear, "I hid behind the rockery, but I clearly saw Miss Brianna's expression at that time wasvery... very stiff and scary..."

"What's so scary?" Christina frowned as she listened.

Just as Christina asked and before Nancy could reply, Nancy screamed suddenly. “Step back!"Patrick's face darkened. He grabbed maid Nancy's arm and pushed her away as if he wassuppressing a great deal of anger.

"Why did you push her for no reason!"

Once Christina saw clearly that it was Patrick who did it, she immediately defended Nancy angrily.Patrick turned around and gave Nancy a cold look. He tried his best to control himself and repeated,"Leave now!"

Nancy was a little flustered and looked at Christina. It was obvious that the reason why Patricksuddenly came here was that he wanted to talk to Christina about something private. Nancy thennodded and immediately left.

"What's wrong with you?" Christina didn’t understand why he scolded maid Nancy for no reason.This place was surrounded by a quiet lawn, a crisscrossed path, stone tables, and stone chairs for ashort rest. The flowers were blossoming. It was at dusk, several lampposts were also lit up, giving offfaint yellow light. Right now only Christina and Patrick were standing here face to face.

Patrick was consumed with complicated emotions, which could be identified from his eyes. Hissharp eyes seemed to be trying to see through her whole body.

"What's going on?" He threw a pregnancy test stick onto the stone table next to him. There weretwo red bars indicated on the stick.

Patrick's voice was low, but it sounded like he was going to erupt his anger next.

Christina's eyes dwelled on it and she shivered. She had never seen him so angry.

It was just a pregnancy test stick that showed a positive result.

"What are you trying to say? Two red bars on the pregnancy test stick mean pregnancy. Even so,must you act with such rage?”

Christina disliked his cold and stern eyes. He was often so cold and distant to outsiders, but herarely behaved like this at home.

Hearing her say this, Patrick's expression became even gloomier. His right hand clenched into a fistas if he was trying his best to suppress his emotion.

Suddenly, Patrick looked indifferent. He reached out and grabbed her arm. With great force, hedragged her away...

"What are you doing?"

"Let go of me!"

"Patrick, let go, let go of me. It hurts when you are grabbing my hand..."

Christina was forcefully dragged by him and she pushed him all the way. She scolded him angrily,but he did not react. The servants who passed by looked at them, but they did not dare to sayanything more.

Patrick looked very displeased. He opened the door of the car and did not allow her to refuse at all.He directly pushed her into the passenger seat and slammed the door.

The car drove into the city district. The speed of the car was quite fast, and the car soon passed thecars ahead. Christina looked at him, who looked angry and did not say anything. Then she lookedout the window and saw that the traffic police had already honked to catch them.

"Don't drive so fast. It's dangerous.”

"Where are you taking me?" Christina was really angry and did not know why he behaved like this."Christina, there is a bottom line for all my indulgence in you..." His eyes were cold and deep as helooked at the road traffic ahead. He was still driving very fast, "You'd better not disappoint me.” Thelast sentence was uttered very low, with his hesitation.

Soon, the car braked and stopped in front of a hospital.

Patrick got out of the car quickly. It seemed as if there were overwhelming and intense emotionsaccumulated in his mind. He couldn't wait to quickly drag Christina to the hospital.

"Why are you taking me to the hospital? I'm not going to the hospital!" Christina subconsciouslyretreated. She had been very resistant to the hospital she suffered postnatal sequela last time."Take her for a test..." Patrick did not allow her to refuse at all and ordered the doctor coldly, "Apregnancy test."

The doctor at the reception told him faithfully, "But now staff working in the complex are off work.As for B-scan ultrasonography, you have to wait for tomorrow..."

"What B-scan ultrasonography? I won't do it!"

Christina took the opportunity to break free of Patrick's hand. She was very angry and turned toleave. She didn't want to play around with him here.

Before she could walk out of the door, she was stopped by a few security guards. Several peoplefrom the hospital rushed over and changed their tone when speaking to Patrick, "There are manymethods for pregnancy testing. Which one do you need?"

Patrick did not show any emotion. He said coldly, "All of them. Use all the methods to test her.”"What are you doing? Don't hold me. Let me go! Let me go!"

Christina was held by people from the left and from the right. She was struggling like a prisoner.She felt humiliated and was forced to take several tests, such as drawing blood, B-scanultrasonography, taking off her clothes, and being manipulated by these medical staff.

Patrick had been standing beside her and watching. He had accompanied her and witnessed all thetests.

Finally, the test results came out, "We are sure that your wife is not pregnant.”

It seemed that this sentence brought Patrick back to his senses in an instant. He fixed his eyes onthe examination reports holding in his hands and read them over and over again.

"You get furious at me because of a pregnancy test stick.”

Christina came down from the examination table. She looked embarrassed, "If you want to knowwhether I'm pregnant or not, you can ask me directly. Why did you humiliate me in this way? Youdon't believe me, and you act inexplicably like this just because you saw it from a pregnancy teststick...”

As she spoke, tears welled up in her angry eyes, "Patrick, I don't understand. You. It's really hard toget along with people like you!" She grabbed the examination reports on the table and threw themall on the floor. She turned around and left.

Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020.

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