Claire lets her body relax and enjoy the warmth. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But just then, heavy footsteps come from the corridor. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire is familiar with the rhythm of the footsteps. It’s Leo. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire freezes. She pushes Bryce away and straightens her hair. She sees Leo slowly walk over with his hands behind him. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
His eyes are like knives, and he walks slowly, but every step is like stabbing a knife into Claire’s heart. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo holds out his hands behind him and claps. He laughs sarcastically. “It’s moving. Are you brother and sister with deep feelings or something?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire knows Leo misunderstands them again. But this time she really doesn’t want to explain. She doesn’t speak. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce arranges his clothes and is calm. Everyone knows he likes Claire so he doesn’t have to hide it. But for Claire, he says to Leo, “do you misunderstand our hug? How dirty is your mind?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce’s temperament is not inferior to Leo’s. He is more stable than Leo. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Instead of looking at Bryce, Leo looks at Claire and says, “are you pregnant with Bryce’s baby so he’s happy? He often comes to the hospital these days.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire raises her head and looks at Leo coldly. “It has nothing to do with Bryce. Don’t talk nonsense.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo says, “it’s funny. It turns out that no one wants your baby.” With that, he looks at Bryce. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce takes a step forward and says calmly, “you are a calm person. Why do you pester us like a child? I’m chasing Claire and don’t mind your comments. But I never did anything bad to Claire. Her baby is not mine.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo also takes a step forward. Both of them look at each other directly and never back down. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“You don’t dare to admit it. Why don’t you be careful when you have an affair with this bitch? Now she’s pregnant with your baby but you don’t admit it. You say you are aboveboard but you let me down. Are you human? That’s your baby!” Leo points to Claire’s abdomen. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to talk to you anymore!” Bryce is speechless. Leo is quite paranoid and he can’t communicate with him. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo is angry and says to Claire, “I shouldn’t let you go. I should have killed this baby before.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce smiles faintly. “Someone has done it for you. It’s just that crazy woman’s not feeling well now.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo knows that Bryce is talking about Emma, and he snaps, “what did you do to her?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce retorts, “you should ask her what she did to Claire. Claire is your wife, asshole.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo just thinks Bryce is angry. He says scornfully, “now you know Claire is my wife? You’re with my wife every day. What do you want to do?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce sighs, “Mr. Howard, I think you’d better see your little mistress.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo takes a look at the stairway and frowns. “You’d better pray that Emma doesn’t have an accident. Or I will punish you.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Leo stares at them and leaves. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
After Leo leaves, Bryce grabs Claire’s hand and tries to take her away. He wants to take her out of this hell. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Claire, you can’t stay here. Leo and Emma are crazy. Don’t be silly. Leave with me!” For the first time Bryce is so outrageous. Claire is shocked. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Bryce, let me go.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire gets rid of Bryce’s hand. She turns to her ward. “Bryce, leave me alone. Just let me bear it. Please, don’t force me anymore!” Claire chokes. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
She wants to leave, but what about her father? She can’t leave at all. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bryce looks at Claire’s thin back and is heartbroken. He doesn’t understand why she refuses to leave. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But he will never give up. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
… <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Emma is in a coma in the stairwell, and she is seriously injured. Leo picks her up before she wakes up. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Emma cries in Leo’s arms. She wakes up feeling pain. She puts her hands on Leo’s shoulders and her head on Leo’s chest. Her tears wet Leo’s shirt. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“This is the second time, Leo. Can you bear to see me beaten like this. Claire hurt me! I’m going to kill her!” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Emma pushes Leo away and rushes toward the ward. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
She runs to Claire’s ward. Before Claire speaks, Emma wants to slap her. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire is shocked and thinks she wants to hurt her baby again. She pushes her and shouts, “don’t come here!” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Emma is seriously injured and she falls to the ground after being pushed. However, at this time, Leo comes and sees Claire push Emma to the ground. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Claire, what are you doing?” Leo roars. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
When Emma sees Leo come in, she cries again. “Leo, she bullies me again.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
After helping Emma up and comforting her, Leo sneers at Claire and says, “Claire, you slut. Don’t you even know who you are?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire shivers. She doesn’t know what to say. Leo is partial to Emma. Whatever she does and says is wrong! <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Explain it. Are you not willing to make excuses now?” Leo is bloodthirsty and sneers. With that, he calls and calls up some black bodyguards downstairs. “Claire, I won’t let you go!” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire protects her stomach and says in horror, “Leo, what are you going to do?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“What am I going to do? I’m afraid you know better than I do. Should I let my wife have Bryce’s baby?” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Claire lets her body relax and enjoy the warmth. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But just then, heavy footsteps come from the corridor. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire is familiar with the rhythm of the footsteps. It’s Leo. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Claire freezes. She pushes Bryce away and straightens her hair. She sees Leo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}