Chapter 16 Repaying Kindness with a Meal
"What guest?"
Ethan, mid-bite, looked totally lost.
When Michael and Katherine heard Ashley had fainted, they freaked out and wanted to rush over. Ethan quickly put down his fork. "Grandpa, Grandma, relax. Let me check on her."
"Ethan, she is our honored guest. Be careful."
"Don't just stand there, call 911."
The servants scrambled to call 911. Ethan dashed upstairs to the guest room and found Ashley passed out on the floor. He moved to pick her up but noticed drawings scattered everywhere.
But there was no time to waste. Ethan scooped her up, brushing aside her messy hair, and realized it was the gold digger!
"She's the guest?"
Just then, Michael and Katherine arrived. "Ethan, how's Ashley? Why did she faint?"
Ethan snapped, "Grandpa, didn't I tell you not to get involved with her?"
"Now's not the time for that! Get her to the hospital!"
Though furious, Ethan saw she wasn't faking it and carried her to the ambulance.
One hour later...
At the hospital, Ethan found out that while he was on a business trip, Ashley had been staying with the Yates family. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. This gold digger was trying to worm her way into his life through his grandparents.
Unforgivable!
Ethan scolded his grandparents for letting a stranger into the family, but they shot back at him. In the middle of their argument, the doctor walked in with the test results. "Are you the patient's family? Congrats, she's six weeks pregnant with twins!"
Ethan's face went blank.
Ashley woke up just then and heard the doctor. "What, I'm pregnant? With twins?"
Michael beamed. "Wonderful! Twins! You rascal, you got her pregnant. Now get a marriage license with her."
Ethan laughed bitterly. "Yeah, we had a one-night stand, but she took birth control. Who knows whose kids those are? They can't be mine!"
Trying to pin this on him, her plan was really cunning!
Ashley's face turned pale. She looked at him, shocked and angry. "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you take me for?"
Michael said, "Didn't expect that, did you? That day when you had Diannel force her to take the pills, I had all the birth control pills replaced with vitamins. Do the math. The dates match up, don't they?"
Ethan's face darkened.
Ashley finally understood, her head spinning. "How could this happen? I took birth control pills, how did they turn into vitamins..."
Ethan was stunned. Doing the math, he figured that it was indeed six weeks. Could the kids really be his?
Ethan's eyes drifted to Ashley's belly, where two little lives were growing. Were they really his?
"Ethan, if you don't believe it, you can wait until she gives birth and do a DNA test. A real man takes responsibility. Since she's pregnant, you have to see it through."
Ethan's face was ashen. "Marriage isn't just up to me; she has to agree too."
"So, if she agrees to marry you, you'll do it?"
Ethan rubbed his temples, exasperated. "Yes."
"Ashley, Ethan is willing to take responsibility. What do you think?"
Ashley held her head, overwhelmed.
"I... I don't know..."
Who would want to marry a gigolo? He was promiscuous, and who knew how many women he had slept with!
Just then, Ethan's phone rang. "I'll take this call outside. You talk."
After Ethan left, Michael and Katherine kept pushing her to agree to the marriage.
But Ashley's mind was a blur. All she knew was that she was pregnant, pregnant with a gigolo's child.
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