My ex-husband is in love with me (FULL)
Chapter 858 Familiar Strangers

Hearing Maisie's words, Roman could hardly say anything for a while. He met her and had a few words with her when she took care of David in this hospital last time. Maisie talked to Roman in a confident and calm manner, too. She seemed to be gentle and soft, but in fact, she was hard and strong-minded.

Suddenly Roman understood why Ezra couldn't nail her. The more Maisie kept calm and quiet, the more difficultly she was seen through and dealt with.

But his beloved grandson whom he missed very much was in Maisie's hands now, so Roman would rather give up his pride.

Roman said to Maisie again, "Anyway, the rocky history between us has nothing to do with my grandson. I want to talk with you about him, and that's why I called you today."

Full of derision and contempt, Maisie chuckled on the phone, "Mr. Cantillo, how could you say there was nothing to do with you? You know, the kid came to the world just because your son and I had sex, right?"

Roman choked with rage again.

Seldom could he expect that Maisie was so hard to deal with. She shut the old man's mouth with just a few words.

Maisie, an awkward woman in his eyes, was so arrogant and aggressive to Roman.

But he couldn't become angry. Exactly speaking, he dared not to do so.

That was a great irony and humiliation to him.

Sighed heavily, he said in a rather humble way, "Maisie, can you please allow me to see my grandson? You know I am a dying man now. I beg you, please."

As numb as she was, Maisie said, "Mr. Cantillo, I got lots of abrasions and soft tissue contusions because of the car accident. But to protect Ezio in my belly, I refused to take any medicine. Although those were superficial wounds, they brought me sharp pain."

What Maisie said was true. The unbearable pain made her cry during the first few days.

Only she, herself, knew how much anguish and pain she had suffered.

"You should have been more ruthless, and then you wouldn't have to beg me like this now."

If he had killed her and her baby, Roman wouldn't have to endure the suffering and trouble now.

Roman's face blushed with embarrassment. He said, "Why do you take things so hard? As long as you let my grandson go back to the Cantillo family, I will make him the future heir of the family, giving all I have to him and his father, Ezra."

"He will live in extreme luxury from now on, which others can't get even in dreams!"

Roman tried his best to persuade Maisie.

Unmoved, Maisie said, "I gave my son the name Ezio, just because I hope he can live a simple life. Your fortune is not attractive to me."

"I hope my son can live a simple life with me, never wronging himself for anyone and compromising for anything. I hope he can become the person he wants to be from the bottom of his heart. Roman didn't know what to say.

Maisie didn't intend to say anything more. "I'm sorry," she said. "I am busy. Bye."

With the cell phone in his hand, Roman gnashed his teeth in great anger. Just because he was ill, Roman had to grovel to Maisie and Ezra like this. How resentful he was!

If he was still strong, Roman would have snatched his grandson back as soon as possible, just as he snatched Ezra back from his mother years ago.

It was not long after Maisie hung up that she received a call from Ezra.

Ezra asked on the phone, "Did the old man call you?"

"Yes," Maisie answered lightly.

Silent for a moment on the phone, Ezra said in a somewhat sad tone, "Never give up our son, Maisie."

"No matter how many difficulties you run into," Ezra murmured on the phone, "I will never allow our son to be separated from you."

Maisie had never seen Ezra so sentimental since she knew him. Neither did she know what to say at that moment, nor could she figure out why he suddenly became so sentimental.

But she had to admit that she was touched because Ezra said he would never let her and her son be separated.

Although she looked very calm, Maisie was in fact in great anxiety during these days. She was afraid that Ezra or Roman would take her son away, making them separated from each other. She was quite clear she was not capable to fight against Ezra or Roman at all. If they really wanted to take her son away, she would try desperately to protect him, even if they both lost in the end.

But she felt at ease after hearing Ezra's words. Like a drowning person who could breathe again, Maisie relaxed a lot.

"Thank you," she said from the bottom of her heart.

Ezra said, "Fortunately, my son is so little that he doesn't understand what happened. Even if he is bullied by you, he will only smile foolishly."

Hearing his description of her son's smile as foolish, Maisie was somewhat unpleasant. She was on the point of objecting when Ezra sighed and said, "When my father stole me from my mother, I was not a little child and knew something. My mother got into great desperation, and then the photo studio she lived in had to be closed. All those made my heart broken, so finally, I agreed to go with my father." Ezra loved and felt sorry for his mother, so he would rather bear it all by himself. He knew his mother didn't want him to do that, but Ezra couldn't stand her being hurt.

And at that time, if the studio was shut down, his mother couldn't keep living.

If there should be revenge, first Ezra had to survive, and then he was able to carry out his plans, right? So, at that time, he was determined to go with his father and join the big Cantillo family. Of course, the old man allowed him to meet his mother, but the feeling was still different.

Fortunately, his mother lived a happy now. Otherwise, he would hate the old man even more.

When he was forced to separate from his mother, Ezra got an unforgettable and indelible pain. Now when his son was in the same situation, he vowed he would never let the little thing suffer that pain again, nor let Maisie become stuck or heartbroken.

That was why Ezra promised Maisie that whether they would get married or not, he would not take their son away from her. Last time Ezra was so flustered and exasperated that he said he would fight for the custody.

Ezra mentioned his mother's miseries, which were out of Maisie's expectations.

They never really had this kind of heart-to-heart talk. When they were together, they hardly talked about such private topics as the feud between him and his father or the injustice she had suffered in her big family from childhood to adulthood.

She knew something about his life experience from Julian's conversations with others, and he maybe got the fact that she was treated unfairly from others' chats.

It was funny that they had never opened their heart to each other.

So, the words "familiar strangers" were appropriate for them.

Maisie didn't know how to respond to Ezra. It happened she got a work call, so she said goodbye to him and hung up.