Chapter 37: You Don't Have to Do This

Julia woke up in the hospital, but when she opened her eyes, the person sitting beside her wasn't Elio or Nathan. It was Katie, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
"Julia!" Katie stood up abruptly when she saw Julia awake. "Do you feel any discomfort anywhere? If you do, please let me know. I'll go find a doctor."
Julia sighed. "You don't have to do this."
Katie was now a high-ranking executive at the Parker Group, but right now, she was flustered and at a loss for what to do.
"I'm sorry," Katie didn't know what to say.
When she received Elio's call asking her to come to the hospital to take care of Julia, she couldn't help but be shocked.
After all, it was her who had buried Julia with her own hands.
"It has nothing to do with you," Julia said, her voice filled with exhaustion.
Katie has always been a person who is clear about right and wrong.
Back then, Katie was also one of the victims, she didn't need to blame her.
"So, so Julia, you and my brother..." Katie asked cautiously.
"Not possible." Julia replied without any emotion, "Katie, you know me."
"But, but everything wasn't his intention, he just..."
"I know." Julia looked out the window, her voice flat, "Because I know, that's why I can talk to him calmly, I can still be here."
"But..."
"But Katie, what he did to hurt me was true, no matter what the reason, I and him, cannot go back."
How could Katie not know what Julia had been through? It was precisely because she knew, that she didn't know how to persuade her.
"Julia, do you know about Eddie?" Katie suddenly asked.
Julia naturally knew, "What do you want to say?"
"Eddie is yours and my brother's child."
"As for his father, I'm clearer who he is than anyone." Julia sarcastically smiled,
"No, no, Julia, you just don't remember, actually that time it wasn't those people who drugged you, it was my brother and you," Katie hurriedly said, "If you don't believe it, you can do a DNA test, Julia, my brother still liked you back then, but he himself..."
"Even if that's the case, what can change the result?" Julia suddenly looked at Katie, "The result won't change. If it wasn't for my luck four years ago, I would have already been dead."
"Julia..."
"Don't tell that child about my situation. Since that child doesn't know about my existence, let's not let him know."
"You don't plan to acknowledge Eddie?"
"Why should I acknowledge him?" Julia asked her, "Do you know that every time that child appears in front of me, I will recall the most helpless and desperate scene that day, when Elio handed me over to a group of men! Do you know what he said? He said, let them do whatever they want, as long as they don't kill me!"
Julia's eyes suddenly swelled up and became very bitter. She didn't look at Katie, "Do you know how desperate I was at that time? It was the person I used to deeply love!"
At this moment, outside the hospital room, Elio stood stiffly at the door, listening to all her grievances and despair.
He had always known he couldn't get her forgiveness and that he would never have a chance to be with her again in his lifetime.
However, when all of this was truly and vividly presented before his eyes, his heart was burning with pain, his whole body was in agony!