Chapter 116 Molly's Child Isn't Yours?
"Yeah." Adeline lifted her gaze to meet his with a wry smile on her lips. "Surprised, Mr. Foster?"
Jasper's brow furrowed deeply.
The next second, he reached out, firmly grasped Adeline's wrist, and roughly pulled her out of the design department.
He didn't even bother with the elevator.
Instead, he hauled her up the stairs to the rooftop.
Adeline's body was dragged around like a broken puppet.
By the time they reached the rooftop, she was utterly drained.
Leaning on one knee, she gasped for air. "Jasper, have you lost your mind?"
"I am losing it! You're driving me insane!"
He yanked her into his office.
With a loud bang, the office door was shut, and Adeline's back slammed against it.
Jasper's eyes were rife with intense rage as he glared at her. "You know Adeline, don't you!?
"You were Lauren's mentor during her design studies abroad, and Lauren has been living with Adeline all these years!
"What exactly is your relationship with Adeline?
"Have you two been in cahoots?
"One sends a child to me while the other deliberately lures me in with everything related to Adeline, ensnares me, and manipulates me!
"What are you two trying to do!?"
His furious voice boomed like thunder, exploding in Adeline's ears.
With eyes closed, she mustered a bitter smile. "What do you think?"
The sight of her sardonic smile was like a thorn in Jasper's side.
All this time, they had been playing him for a fool!
"Where is Adeline?"
His eyes bore into her, livid with fury.
Adeline opened her eyes, her lips curled into a mocking smile.
She looked at him silently.
The provocative air about her fed the flames in Jasper's heart.
His grip on her neck tightened. "Where is she? Tell me, where is she! I need to see her!"
Regardless of the past, he wanted to see her now!
Even if the past betrayal had been confirmed, he was willing to overlook it!
Now, he just wanted to see her.
"She won't see you."
Adeline raised her eyes, staring coldly at his face. "Adeline despises you more than anyone else in her life."
"The last person she wants to see is you."
"That's nonsense!"
Adeline's words cut through Jasper like a knife, piercing the bubble of illusions he'd lived in for so long. "She loved me. She loved me more than anything else in her life!"
"That was then!"
Adeline's gaze grew colder as she looked at him. "She did love you. She was willing to defy her parents and ready to give up everything she had!
"But what happened after all that, Jasper? What did you give her then?
"All you ever gave her was endless despair!
"She stopped loving you a long time ago. She's over you!"
Her icy voice hammered down on his heart. Every word was a crushing blow.
"That's impossible!" he protested.
His hands tightened even more around her throat. "You're lying!"
His grip was firm, almost desperate. Adeline's strangled voice broke through, "Jasper, have you lost your mind?"
"It's you who've lost it!"
Enraged, his bloodshot eyes bore into hers. "Or else, you wouldn't say such things!"
Amid the struggle, a loud crash sounded behind Adeline. The office door was busted open.
The door off its hinges, Adeline scrambled away from Jasper, gasping for air as she clutched her throat.
Jasper's fury waned in the face of it. He stood still, glancing from Adeline to the two kids outside, never so unsure of what to do.
"Auntie!"
Seeing Adeline in such a state, Lauren dashed over and hugged her tightly. “Are you okay? Daddy, have you gone mad?"
"He quite obviously has," Bennett chimed in, his brow furrowed with concern for Adeline. He stepped into the office with hands behind his back and addressed Jasper coolly. "This is the rage of being caught in a lie."
"Mr. Jasper, how could I fail to see what kind of person you really are?"
Jasper's frown deepened as he glanced down at Bennett with a sneer. "What would a kid know?"
"A kid knows enough."
Bennett settled into a comfortable position on the couch with his legs crossed. A smirk played on his lips as he said, "When I was abroad, I knew everything that was happening.
"Aunt Adeline never liked you, which is exactly why she had my mom come help you out to take care of Lauren and see if you could do it right."
After saying this, the kid looked at Jasper with his big, watery eyes. "But now, it seems to me, Mr. Jasper, you have a violent streak. You're not fit to raise a daughter on your own."
The man's deep, unfathomable eyes narrowed slightly.
"What else do you know?"
The little one looked at Adeline, whose complexion was gradually returning to normal, and felt a weight lift off his heart. "I also know that you broke Aunt Adeline's heart.
"She genuinely cared for you; all she got in return was your coldness and betrayal."
The man's brow furrowed deeply.
A trace of coldness appeared on his face. "When have I ever betrayed her?"
He could admit to being cold, ruthless, and heartless. After all, when he was with Adeline, he stubbornly believed he married her because she was a good girl. He thought he would never fall for her.
But...
It wasn't until he genuinely lost her that he realized she was the most important person in his life. He had not awakened to this fact in time. He never cherished her, and now she had already left.
"Never?" Adeline sat on the floor, clutching her neck, her gaze coldly fixed on Jasper's face, "Then tell me, what exactly is the deal with you and Molly?"
Molly?
Jasper's brows knotted as he scoffed, "I've said it before: my relationship with Molly was nothing more than seeking a respectable status to take good care of her after Adeline left.
"She's Adeline's sister. Shouldn't I be looking after her?"
Adeline watched Jasper dodge the question with a twisted smile.
"There were so many ways to take care of her, so why did it have to be the one you chose?"
"And the child Molly had, wasn't it yours?"
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