“Alright, then. Stay put. I’m going to ask the chef to make these dishes for dinner.”
“Alright.”
Ivor stood up and headed to the kitchen.
She watched him as he left. A warm, fuzzy feeling rose within her chest. ‘It feels good to be appreciated and valued by my partner.’
The next day, Bonnie had just walked to the gate of Pyralis University when she heard a nervous voice from behind her.
“Bonnie. Hey, Bonnie! Hold on for a second. Wait for me.”
She stopped in her tracks and turned around. The first thing she saw was a man carrying a baby racing toward her.
Once he came before her, he wore a big, fat smile on his face.
“Oh, my. I finally found you! Do you know how long the baby and I have been waiting for you?”
She had a sense that the man before her was a little not right in the head. So, she subtly took a couple of steps back.
“Who are you? Why were you waiting for me?”
The man became agitated at once when she didn’t recognize him. His face reddened as he smacked his chest and pointed at the baby in his arms.
“It’s me, Niko Hicks. I’m your boyfriend, and this is our son. You were pregnant with him for ten months before you gave birth to him! How could you forget about us? I-Is it because we’re meeting you here, and you find it humiliating?”
There were a lot of students heading into the university for classes. The moment they heard what Niko said, they stopped for a juicy bit of gossip.
Bonnie saw how a crowd began to gather around her out of the corner of her eyes. Then she looked at the man and the baby in his arms calmly.
“I don’t know you, and I certainly didn’t get pregnant for ten months and give birth to any child. If you’re going to keep defaming me, I’m going to press charges.”
Niko clutched his chest and stared at her, seemingly heartbroken.
“It’s bad enough you don’t want to reconcile with me, but are you seriously this heartless that you’d abandon your own son? Do you have any idea how we had to scrape by ever since you left us? “I have to work during the day and look after our son at night. That’s why I’m ridden with illness at such a young age. Our baby son is too young to be skipping meals, but I just can’t afford it. That’s why he keeps getting sick as well.
“There were a lot of times I thought about giving it all up, but then I would wonder something. Is it possible that you abandoned us because you didn’t have a choice back then?
“Then, I’d get to thinking that I have to find you. We have to reunite, support each other, and get through these harrowing times together. Now that I’ve finally found you, I realize you’ve been living a wealthy life without caring about me or our son.
‘What’s worse, you’re pretending to not recognize us! N-Never have I thought that you’re this heartless!’
Niko spoke with such emotion that it sounded genuine. He looked at Bonnie in a heartbroken manner before glancing at the baby in his arms. Then, he was so devastated that tears fell from his eyes.
His feelings were so strong, and his accusation was so serious, that the surrounding crowd started to have immense sympathy for him and an untamable rage for Bonnie.
“Men don’t typically cry unless they’re really heartbroken. Bonnie is truly awful for turning him into a sobbing mess.”
“Where did she find the strength to abandon her own son? Is her heart made of stone?”
“This is a new low. Nothing she has done in the past holds a candle to this. She’s so ruthless. I’m telling you, she has just opened my eyes.”
