Too Much to Bear, My Love
Chapter 128

Too Much to Bear, My Love Chapter 128 Awkward Moment“Explain things? That's all you ever say. Are you going to divorce meonce she’s discharged? Is that it? If that's the case, why don't you justgive it to me straight instead of keeping me in suspense? It's absolutetorture not knowing when exactly I'm going to be abandoned.” Theprevious day, she had decided to reconcile with Oscar, but when facedwith his accusatory questions, all the grievances from the night beforesurged to the forefront. Even though she tried to suppress it, it waseasier said than done.

Oscar gazed steadily at her.

Under his intense gaze, Amelia's ears started to burn, and her eyesflickered for a moment.

She licked her parched lips and said with her head bowed, “Mr. Clinton,I don't wish to create a scene with you here either, but can you at leastgive me a sign when you're going to divorce me?”

Oscar's eyes swirled with mixed emotions. After a long moment ofsilence, he voiced, “Have you fallen in love with me?”

Amelia's heart squeezed in her chest, and she looked up at him. “If I sayyes, you'd directly shut down this train of thought, wouldn't you?”Oscar's response was to lift his hand and caress her cheek. “Don’toverthink things. Since we're both here, let's have lunch together later.We haven't eaten together for two to three days now. How's our babydoing? Giving you any trouble?”

Amelia's eyes reddened, and her voice carried a hint of grievance whenshe spoke. “So you still remember that I'm carrying your child.”

Oscar was slightly at a loss. His eyes filled with tender affection when hegazed at her. “You and your wild imagination.”

He was about to say something else when his phone rang. Both he andAmelia stiffened at the same time. The latter quickly reined back heremotions and remarked, “That must be Ms. Yard. She really does careabout you. You've only been away for a while, but she’s already callingyou. Ms. Yard doesn't look like she’s fooling around. On the contrary,she seems to love you to the moon and back. She puts even me, yourlegal wife, to shame.”

Oscar's face visibly darkened, but he still answered the call. “Hello.”Cassie's voice drifted over the phone. “Oz, where are you? Aren't youonly collecting the medicine? What's taking you so long?”

Impatience flashed across the man's features.

“I'll be back in a short while, Cassie. Don't worry.”

“Have you gone back, Oz?"

Oscar toned down his temper and reassured, “No. I just ran into anacquaintance at the hospital, and we talked for a while. Stopoverthinking things.”

Upon hearing his explanation, alarm bells started ringing in Cassie'shead. “Is your friend a male or a female? Which floor are you on? I'll golook for you. I want to get to know your friend too.”

Irritation swelled in Oscar's heart. If it were a few years back, he mighthave found Cassie's temperamental ways adorable and would stillaccommodate her. But at present, her possessive streak was borderingon crazy that even he, as a man, found it unbearable.

He felt as though he was floating in the middle of the sea. Cassie'spossessiveness resembled the surging waves bashing against him,threatening to pull him under.

“That's enough, Cassie. I'll go back after half an hour,” Oscar told her ina stern tone.

“Do you replace me annoying, Oz?"

Oscar raised his hand to massage his temples and lowered his voice,“Cassie, stop it, okay? Apart from taking care of you, I still have acompany to manage. I'm exhausted too, you know? Can you give mesome degree of personal space? I don't like the way you watch myevery single step. You know I've always hated being controlled byothers.”

Panic rose in Cassie's heart, and she immediately softened her tone.“Oz, I'm not trying to control you. I was just worried because you didn'tcome back for such a long time. I thought something happened toyou.”

A trace of weariness entered Oscar's eyes, but he matched her tone. “Ijust met a friend. That's it.”

After offering her a few more words of comfort, he finally hung up thecall.

Oscar kept his phone in his trouser pocket and glanced at Amelia,colliding gazes with her. The first thing she said was, “Are you having ahard time taking care of Ms. Yard?"

Oscar rubbed his temples again as he replied, “Women are complicatedcreatures. Cassie used to be very innocent. Although she can getstubborn at times, deep down, she’s still a kind person.” In other words,she had become too defiant for her own good, and he was almost athis wits’ end.

Amelia suggested, “Mr. Clinton, have you ever considered the fact thatfive years can change a person entirely?”

Oscar pressed his lips together in contemplation.

Faced with his silence, Amelia added, “I'm not trying to sow discordbetween you and Ms. Yard. It's just that you both were separated forfive years and only recently reconciled. Are you so certain that she’s stillthe person you once thought she was?”

Oscar shot her a fleeting glance, then caressed her cheek and mused,“Worrying about your husband already?”

Disappointment flashed in Amelia's eyes. “You should go now, Mr.Clinton, before Ms. Yard comes looking for you. Besides, it'sinappropriate of us to talk here while the Scotts are still waiting outsidethe operating room.”

Oscar's eyes darted to the operating room before he reminded, “Let'shave lunch together in a bit.”

Amelia didn’t give him a straight answer, saying instead, “We can talkabout it when you really have the time.”

Oscar cupped her face and used his thumb to gently stroke her cheekbefore whispering, “Don’t think too much about it.” Having said that, heturned to leave.

Amelia was left rooted to the spot, but she was thrown by the glint inhis eyes earlier. She was an emotional wreck because of him. He wasdistant and aloof one second, then warm and passionate another. Theapparent adoration in his eyes just now seemed to say that he only hadeyes for her and that other women meant nothing, let alone had theability to pose a threat.

Being with him was an emotional roller coaster; that was anunderstatement. Amelia muttered under her breath, “You keep tellingme not to think too much, but how I am supposed to do that when youkeep switching between hot and cold?”

She shook her head to clear her mind and returned to the operatingroom.

The Scotts were no longer repulsed by her like before. Even Faye cameforward to take her hand. “Amelia, I'm very sorry for misunderstandingyou before. You seem to have a good relationship with Mr. Clinton. I'mgrateful to you for saving Carter's life. Just come to me if you needanything in the future. I'll help you in any way I can. I was narrow-minded before, that's why I thought you hadn't gotten over him.”Amelia offered her a decent smile and said, “It's fine, Mrs. Scott. I'venever blamed you.”

In fact, she knew why Faye was suddenly being nice to her. It was partlybecause Carter showed signs of waking up after she spoke to him, butmostly because of Oscar. Even though the Scotts were wealthy, theClintons were still more superior to them. In addition, Oscar had thetrust of most people in the business circle, so Faye wanted to get in hisgood books through Amelia.

“Look at you, being all formal with me. Just call me Faye. I think I'll takeyou in as my goddaughter. From now on, you can consider Carter yourbrother. I'll make sure he takes good care of you,” Faye blurted out thatwild idea.

Amelia shot her an odd look.

Jack came forward to put an arm around Faye and pulled her backslightly. “My dear, tone it down, or you might scare her. Besides, Carteris still in the operating room, so let's focus on the problem at hand.”Only then did Faye regain her composure. She pushed the stray strandsof hair from her face and said apologetically, “I'm terribly sorry, Amelia.I just got too excited. Once Carter is all recovered and gets discharged,I'll personally cook a feast and invite you and Mr. Clinton over. Sinceyou're my goddaughter, Mr. Clinton is naturally my godson.”

Amelia courteously replied, “Mrs. Scott, let's talk about all this later. Themost important thing is Carter waking up. I don't think anything elsematters as much.”

Faye's expression turned slightly grim, but she quickly schooled herfeatures and smiled. “You're right. Once Carter wakes up, I'll tell him tothank you properly.”

“You're too kind, Mrs. Scott. I didn't do anything much. Carter'scondition wasn't all that severe, to begin with.”

Faye forced a smile onto her face but didn't say anything else.Everyone waited outside the operating room for nearly two hoursbefore the indicator above the doors finally switched off. When severaldoctors and nurses exited the room, Faye immediately dashed forwardto ask, “Doctors, how's my son?”

The lead doctor assured her with a smile, “Don’t worry, Mrs. Scott. Yourson is out of danger. He should be able to wake up tomorrow.”

Faye almost passed out from happiness and relief. “Really?”

The doctor nodded in affirmation.

When three nurses wheeled Carter out, Faye rushed forward again, butone of the nurses stopped her. “Madam, please calm down. Allow us totake the patient back to his ward first.”

Realizing her recklessness, Faye retreated and let them pass.

As they wheeled him back to his ward, Faye trailed closely behind themwith the rest of the family excitedly following along. Meanwhile,Jennifer glanced at Amelia, who stood motionless, and queried, “Aren“tyou coming?”

Amelia caressed her belly and shook her head. “No. I'm happy Carter'swaking up soon, but I'm not going to stick around.”

Jennifer looked at her with a complicated expression. Even though shewas standing tall and proud, her eyes displayed the unspeakable pain inher heart.

She glanced in the direction the Scotts had left before admitting in asoft voice, “I envy you, Amelia.”

Amelia's brows raised slightly.

Jennifer shrugged in response and elaborated in a bitter tone, “In myopinion, I'm in no way inferior to you, be it in appearance, body, familybackground, or education. Yet, you're the one Carter fell in love with. Ican tell he loves you with everything in him. More often than none, awoman's intuition is spot-on. That's why I hate you so much. Eventhough you woke him up, that's not going to change. I used to be veryconfident in myself; I was confident that no man could escape mycharm. Carter is the first. To him, I'm merely a woman who doesn'tdeserve a second glance.”

Amelia met her gaze and stated steely, “You're an exceptional woman.”Jennifer tossed her curly hair behind her shoulder and returned tobeing an insufferable snob. “Tell me something I don't know.”

Amelia was rendered speechless by the woman's arrogance, but shecouldn't help replaceing her pitiful.

Jennifer said in a self-assured manner, “Even though you're the oneCarter loves now, I believe that he'll fall in love with me in the end. I'llnever give up, and I hope you'll guard your own family well and keepfrom bothering him.”

Amelia good-naturedly replied, “Congratulations in advance, then. Justlike you've said, I have my own family and also a child on the way, soit's basically impossible between Carter and I, which means I pose nothreat to you.”

Jennifer lifted her chin and proposed, “You should still come to seeCarter. Even though I really don't want to see you, what choice do Ihave, since you're all he ever wants to see? I'm sure you'd be the firstthing he'd wanna see upon opening his eyes.”

Amelia shook her head to reject that suggestion. “No, thanks. I shouldleave for lunch now. I don’t want my baby to go hungry.”

Jennifer nodded in understanding at that.

Amelia swiveled on her heels to leave, but the woman then called outfrom behind, “Amelia, no matter what, you have my gratitude.”

Amelia halted in her steps.

"Amelia, I really hate you, but if Carter insists on seeing you, I hopeyou'll come and visit him. I really do love him, and the last thing I'dwanna see is him getting hurt.”