CHAPTER 37: CHAPTER 37: WANTING HIM TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

But there was no other way, to make her trip to Breslin seem logical and without suspicion.

She could only portray herself as the most despicable, embarrassed, and unscrupulous character.

So, without a doubt, he must detest her even more and hate her even further!

Annelise Winter barely slept on the journey.

The fifteen-hour flight indeed easily frayed the nerves.

It felt especially long.

Like a blade cutting her piece by piece.

Every single minute and second was so difficult to bear.

Finally, the plane landed at a private tarmac in Breslin.

This was the property of the Warner Family.

Elias Warner didn’t take Annelise Winter to the hospital or his hotel but had the driver bring her here instead.

Elias Warner had been here for two hours already.

Having lost his patience, he had been relentlessly punching in the gym!

Every punch landed with force, each packed with uncontrollable fury!

He was shirtless, wearing just loose-fitting sweatpants!

His sexy honey-toned skin, pecs, abs, and Apollo’s belt were all fully displayed.

Sweat poured down, cascading over his solid arms!

At that moment, his body, brimming with hormones, was tense and suppressed, as if it could explode at any moment!

With the man’s disciplined training, every muscle was just right.

A thin layer of fat, so perfect it seemed like the Creator’s most precise masterpiece!

When Annelise arrived, this was the scene she saw of the man.

This was utterly different from the Elias Warner of five years ago!

A moment belonging to a man!

Also, an Elias Warner that Annelise had never seen before!

Annelise felt a pang of sourness in her heart, assuming Elias hadn’t noticed her. She took off her shoes at the entrance.

Barefoot, she walked step by step toward Elias.

But she didn’t expect that when she was almost about to hug his slender waist from behind.

Elias didn’t even turn his head; his long arm reached back and precisely grasped her delicate wrist, the grip so strong it felt like he’d crush her!

Pulling her in front of him, he roughly and ungentlemanly pressed her onto the pool table at the side.

The pain made her spasm!

But Elias Warner’s eyes surged with raging waves; he held her neck, forcing her into a humiliating position, leaning over her.

"Carried my child?" His hoarse voice was like it had been scratched by malice.

Yet it seemed filled with mockery and disbelief.

Annelise was still wearing the white satin dress given by Renee Perry that morning.

The openwork design made her skin stick to the table.

She shivered again but didn’t struggle, "Yes."

Only the nails hanging by her side were almost dug out.

Elias’ icy eyes stared down into hers, "Do you think I’m as foolish as I was back then, Annelise?"

As if he couldn’t endure anymore, he tightened his grip, and a large hand unrestrainedly slid to her waist.

The sandpaper-like fingertips burned into her soul.

Annelise wanted to cry; this was the first time he called her name after their reunion.

Annelise, he only ever called her that when she had infuriated him.

Her tear ducts seemed triggered, painfully sour, "No lie, I really was pregnant then... Do you remember? That night there was once you didn’t wear..."

Annelise bit her lip, her voice tinged with tears, trembling fingers trying to clutch him, but he wasn’t wearing a shirt.

Her nails dug into his hard back muscles, "Isn’t it normal to get pregnant without protection?"

Her soft waist wrapped around him like a vine, "So was I wrong to make you take responsibility?"

But he was like a bow drawn to its limit, wrapped around by her, draining his blood.

He hadn’t forgotten, just moments ago, she was lying in his bed moaning Chase Perry’s name.

Nor had he forgotten, she only thought of him because she couldn’t find a better man!

As his blood froze, Elias felt his emotions inside cool down, looking down at her, wanting to see what audacious words she would say.

"Then tell me, where’s the child?!"

His Adam’s apple bobbed, grasping her chin firmly, forcing her to look up and meet his murky eyes.

Annelise’s eyes were wet and red, "I was only twenty at the time, still in school, how could I give birth."

How difficult it was.

To avoid everyone’s gaze.

She dared not think how she made it through that time.

"So you didn’t want the child?" Elias chuckled bitterly, a light mocking in his voice, his hand so large it could almost cover her back entirely,

Danger shooting forth almost instantly!

"Annelise! You crossed thousands of miles to Breslin just to play me again, didn’t you?!"

"Did they reject you? Can’t give you what you want? So you’re regretting, remembering the one you played with?!"

Chase Perry asked him if he knew why she wanted the Peace Lock.

He had seriously pondered this question, surely it couldn’t be because she loved him?

In the end, he thought too much.

Actually, Annelise tried hard to play the role of a bad woman, revealing she had been pregnant, claiming she wanted him to take responsibility, just to provoke Elias into arranging her visit to Meridia.

For Elias to believe she came to Meridia just to seduce him again.

But which part of what she said wasn’t true?!

At twenty, when she was pregnant, against everything and everyone, in her toughest time, she never thought of not having the child.

Yet at the time, Elias left for abroad in anger, she was filled with regret and unstable emotions, and the child’s condition kept deteriorating.

It was later that Chase Perry came up with the idea of her going abroad for an exchange, bringing her to Breslin to keep the child.

Her child with him, how could she not want!

To protect the embryo, she had so many progesterone injections that later, her daughter was born with congenital heart disease.

So many prenatal checkups failed to detect it.

This must be her deserved punishment, Heaven’s retribution for her, but why punish through her child.

Now, she only hoped for her daughter’s successful surgery so she could grow healthy like other ordinary children.

She already owed her daughter too much, so she fought tooth and nail, overcoming all obstacles to come to Breslin.

Annelise, like a bad woman, looked up at him, eyes red, "So were you seduced?"

Elias’s handsome face was cold as ice, no trace of emotion, "Do you think I’m still that naive young boy from back then?"

Annelise didn’t believe, she couldn’t believe he wasn’t affected, "I don’t believe it!"

"Then try it!"

Annelise obediently moved her hands from his back to the front, about to touch his sweatpants, but his hand clamped down hard again.

His large hand kept their bodies apart, not giving her any chance to feel.

"Want to touch me? Are you worthy?"