You Can Run But You Can't Hide My Contractual Wife

Chapter 71 : Life's Big Joke

The announcement made Arabella paralyzed. Her mind went blank and she even felt her heart had

stopped beating. The expression on her pale face was merely disappointment and highly strung.

“Ms. Jones, Are you okay?” The doctor snapped her back to her senses. “Please see your ob-gyn for

the complete ultrasound and check-up.” He added.

That’s the only time, she got to blink her eyes. Staggering, Arabella walked throughout the hospital and

stopped at the park just right in front of the building. She sat down on the bench and let go of all her

tears that were already assembled in her eyes.

‘How could this happen to me?’ She kept on questioning herself. When she was young, she had

always imagined herself as a princess living in a huge palace and a prince would come to marry her.

The prince would love her so dearly and she also loved him so deeply. They would marry each other

then made a family and they would live happily ever after. Why her imagination seemed so different in

reality? How could she end up with a baby with a father who only knew sex without love? Her ideal

princess romance was shattered instantly.

‘What am I going to do?’ All she could feel was so much heaviness in her heart. The kind of

relationship she had with the father of her child, Bill, was not ideal nor it couldn't be named as good

even. ‘Why it has to be Bill?’ She was saddened by the fact that the father of her child was the person

whom she hated the most. Of how many times she cursed his name, now, she had felt life was playing

a big joke on her. She smiled and laughed, mocking herself, then cried again. If someone could see

her, one could easily say that she’s a paranoid or having a brain damage.

At this moment, she was lost and her mind was in a mess. There was only one thing that made her go

through the deepest sadness, it was the fear of the future.

Just when a soccer ball rolled towards her and hit her leg a bit. To avoid someone seeing her crying,

she quickly wiped her tears with her hands and leaned over to get the ball but before she could touch it,

a small boy got it first and gave her a sweet cutie smile.

“Thank you, Miss.” The little boy with a blue eyes, red cheeks and lips, nodded and smiled at her

sweetly before he went back to play with the other bunch of little boys.

The sweet smile and charismatic face of the little boy made her freeze. For some reason, her heart

became calm. A deep happiness inside her, covered her deepest sadness. Unconsciously, she put her

hand on her belly and she gently stroked it up and down.

Caught in between sadness and happiness, she cried again. Then, in just a minute, she stopped

seeing someone offered her a tissue. Shocked and surprised, she looked up to see the man standing

in front of her with the tissue in his hand.

“Jayson?” Her eyes widened to see an old folk.

“Hmmm… Why are you crying here? Why are you in the hospital?” Jayson asked with an unhappy

facial expression. He was about to wipe Arabella’s tears, but she quickly got the tissue to do it for

herself. Feeling her indifference, Jayson sat beside her with his dissatisfied expression who was

obviously waiting for her answers.

“Hmmm…” Arabella was staggering that she couldn’t even find just a word to say. “Hmm…” She tried

to talk again, but she couldn’t make it. Her mind had many things inside, but when she thought of a

word to speak out it became suddenly empty. With a heart that extraordinarily thumping, she tried her

best to compose herself.

“Hmmm… I am here to visit a friend. Farrah. You know her, right?” She tried to put up a fake smile. “I

cried because I haven’t seen her. The doctor had released her this morning.” Then she added with

another lie. How could she actually tell him her real situation?

“You actually want me to believe that?” Jayson folded his two arms in front and looked at her frowning.

He had been with Arabella for a long time and he could easily tell if she was lying or not. With eyes

scrutinizing and entering her bottom, Arabella couldn’t help to weep again.

The palpable scene made the people around turned their heads to them. Being alerted by her crying,

Jayson gently hugged her and stroked her back to calm her down. In Jayson’s arms, she felt secure

and protected for having a shoulder to cry on. At this moment, she couldn’t help to wish of Bill hugging

her instead of Jayson but she immediately erased her wishful thinking because she exactly knew that

it’s next to impossible.

After her tears ran dry, she quickly withdrew herself from Jayson’s embrace and put her gaze to the

little boy who was playing then, she smiled.

Judging from her reaction, Jayson had a little hint.

“You wanna drink? Maybe we can drown all our problems somewhere?” Jayson was obviously putting

up a breather for her and him of course.

“Sure!” Without thinking too much, she answered. Even without Jayson, she already planned to drown

all her sorrows with alcohol.

Jayson drove his car and they arrived at the Luxury Bar. It was too late for Arabella to notice that they

were exactly in the same place where she had met Bill Sky in the first time. Memories of that night

came in rushing to her mind as she tried to block them away. So, what if she’s here again? Those

memories of them were nothing special. Plus, the fact that all her problems occurred and her life got

twisted because of that night, she had nothing to be thankful of. Running from memories would not take

away the shadow, instead you have to face it and stood up in the light.

“Shall we?” After pondering for quite a while, she smiled at Jayson and strode inside the bar.

Everything inside was all the same. The spot where she kissed Bill caught her eyes. She had felt sad in

an instant, but she smirked, thinking the catastrophe she went through because of the father of her

child.

They went directly in Jayson’s private room. Inside, all expensive liquors had been already set-up on

the table with its corresponding glasses. A huge French cheese and charcuterie on a board was placed

at the center of the table.

“Here’s to forget all our problem even just for tonight. Cheers!” Jayson raised his glass. Though she

was putting an awkward smile on her face, hearing the word ‘problem’, she felt a bit sour in her heart.

Could you really get away all problems? She thought while asking the bottle of wine.

While sipping her wine, “So tell me, why were you also in the hospital?” This was the only time

Jayson’s appearance in the hospital came across her mind.

“Isn’t that sound so unfair?” Jayson looked at her with no happiness in the face.

“Hey! I thought we are here to be happy. What’s with that look?” For long years that they had been

together, she could clearly see he went through a bad day just by seeing his gloomy face.

“Okay. Okay.” Jayson let go an ample air. “I promise to tell you the truth only if you promise me to do

the same. Is it a deal?” Jayson looked at her sincerely and obviously waiting for her approval.

“Deal!” Without thinking too much, she answered not to torture him that long.

Drinking his whiskey in one gulped, “To answer your question, I am there for the CVS paternity test.

With the help of money, Margaret’s ob-gyn got everything I need without her knowing it.” He drank

another mouthful of whiskey.

“What? What’s the result then?” Arabella couldn’t withstand the suspense anymore.

“I was right. Margaret had played a trick on me.” Jayson’s grip on his glass tightened as he

remembered how Margaret had schemed him. Then to calm himself, he drank his whiskey again in one

go. No wonder Jayson’s face was so gloomy, he had all rights in the world to feel that way.

Thinking of Jayson’s problem and her problem, Arabella had found it a bit weird. He wanted to have a

baby, but he had nothing and she had a baby in her tummy, but she was still undecided to keep it or

not. One thing in her mind, she would choose what’s right. Realizing the situation, everyone had

different problems, it’s just a matter of how you cope up to survive and quitting isn’t an option.

“Hmmm… Well, I am happy that you found it early. What are you going to do with Margaret then?” She

asked with a wine glass in her hand.

“I already fired her in the company. I don’t know, I still haven’t seen her yet.” Jayson’s face had shown

irritation when he talked about Margaret. “Let’s not talk about her. Now, the floor is all yours.” Jayson

then looked at Arabella expectingly waiting for her confession.

“Hmmm… How do I say this?” Arabella was finding the right words for her confession but she couldn’t

compose it rightly. She gulped a mouthful wine before she continued. “Hmmm…Jayson I…” This time,

her lips quivered every time she tried to depart it. “Jayson, I am …” She drank again and poured more

wine into her glass.

“What Arabella?” Jayson’s eagerness to know was beyond her imagination. “I am what?” Jayson felt

palpitation from her suspense. He had already something in mind, but he wanted to confirm it and most

of all, he hoped that his thought was wrong.

In one gulped, “Jayson I am pregnant.” Gathering all her courage and with the help of the alcohol,

Arabella said it directly, then she got the bottle of wine and poured it into her glass. She had felt relief

after the words finally came out of her mouth.

“Stop!” Retrieving his shock, Jayson held her hand to stop Arabella from pouring the wine into her

glass.

“What? Why?” Arabella was quite stunned from Jayson’s abrupt reaction. Is he angry?

“You are pregnant. You can’t drink too much.” Jayson said angrily while taking away the bottle away

from her.

“But I almost finish that bottle.” Arabella murmured.

“Who’s the father? Is it Bill Sky?” Jayson asked with a gloomy face.

“Unfortunately, yes!” Arabella answered with a heavy exhaling.

“Did he know about it?” Jayson took a shot of his whiskey and cross his long legs.

“No. And please promise me that this will be kept only between the two us. Please? Arabella’s begging

eyes captured Jayson.

“Why don’t you want to let him know? He had the right to know?” Jayson tried his best to be a friend,

but the truth, he wanted to smashed everything in the room. He loved Arabella more than everything

but Bill Sky had just ruined her.

“I am still thinking about it. I may or I may not tell him. It just depends on the situation.” Arabella let go

of another heavy breath. Her face was full of disappointments.

“Don’t worry. If he would not accept that child. I am here. Don’t you ever forget that.” Jayson said with

full of sincerity.

“What more can I say?” Arabella had felt his sincerity, but she couldn’t just give him high hopes. Never Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

in her life she would just use someone to be responsible for her.

Hours had passed and Jayson had been already drunk. Since Arabella was prohibited by Jayson to

drink, she just enjoyed eating the platter of cheese.

“Jayson time to go.” Arabella said while assisting Jayson, who was already half lying on the couch.

“Where are we going?” Jayson drunkenly asked.

“To your house. Give me the car key I will drive.” Arabella found him like a little boy when he’s drunk.

“No. No. No. Not in my house. Margaret is surely there. I might kill her if I see her. Just send me to a

nearby hotel please or you can just drop me off on the street.” Jayson then laughed while clutching at

Arabella’s shoulder to maintain his unstable balance.

In a narrow hallway, Arabella was busy assisting Jayson when suddenly, they stopped. Coincidentally,

a group of six people blocked their way. It seemed the group were also surprised by their presence that

they also stopped abruptly. Arabella then slowly raised her head to look at the first two entities standing

in front of them, only to find out that it was Bill and Trishia.

Then her heart suddenly ached.