Chapter 498 – Ives Norton’s Confessions
“A new relationship?” Christine White was confused by his question.
Ives Norton nodded, “Yes, new feelings!”
Christine White answered seriously though she didn’t know why he asked, “No.”
“Why?” Ives Norton was getting a little antsy.
Christine White shook the glass of red wine in her hand, her voice drifting away as she said, “All I want now is revenge, how can I think about that?”
“I know you want to take revenge, so you don’t have the heart now, but what about after? You will finish your revenge one day, and after that, don’t you think about it for your future? You are still young, you should find another man to accompany you, and little baby needs a father in his growing experience.” Ives Norton gripped the glass in his hand and looked at her expectantly.
Christine White suddenly realized what he really meant when he said that tonight, and a slight change in her demeanor arose, “Ives, you don’t mean to say that you want to be the man, do you?”
Mind blown, Ives Norton panicked for a moment, but in the next instant, composed himself and graciously admitted, “Yes, Christine, that’s what I meant, are you … willing to give me a chance?”
He asked a little nervously and with a hint of caution in it.
Christine White was completely dumbfounded, not expecting, in any way, that Ives Norton would suddenly confess his love for her.
This is the second time!
Yes, for the second time.
Five years ago, when she had her kidney replacement surgery, something happened, something that made her realize that he had originally had those feelings for her all along.
Then at Bo’s 100th birthday party, he got drunk and confessed his love for her.
Only the next day he woke up but forgot everything, she was originally still struggling with how to reject him at that time, as a result, she was greatly relieved to learn that he had forgotten all about it, and then she didn’t tell him about his confession of love to her, so up to now he doesn’t even know that he has already confessed his love to her once.
And in the five years that followed, Ives Norton never showed that kind of affection for her again, and his words and behavior towards her were the same as those of a friend, so long ago, she thought he no longer liked her, but she thought wrong, his feelings for her had never dissipated, he had just been hiding them very well.
But somehow, tonight, he confessed to her again, was it the drink again?
“Christine, you …” Lulling Christine White into silence, Ives Norton was a little disturbed and more than a little apprehensive.
Christine White came back to her senses, her teeth lightly biting her lip, “Ives, I’m a little foggy in the head, I …”
“I know!” Ives Norton interrupted her, his handsome face reddening slightly, “I know I’m giving you a big sense of shock by saying this out of the blue, but Christine, I’m not joking, I’m serious, and in case you didn’t know, I actually had feelings for you six years ago.”
Christine White bowed her head.
No, she knows!
Ives Norton looked at her and added, “Six years ago, you were Baird Lane’s wife, and you only had Baird Lane in your eyes and heart, and Baird Lane was my friend, so even if I had those kinds of feelings for you, I wouldn’t have shown them to you, or had the thoughts, but not now.”
Ives Norton smiled a little, “Now that you’re not in a relationship with Baird Lane, and you’ve said that you don’t love him anymore, then I’m fighting for wanting to be on my own, and maybe I’m scaring you by saying this out of the blue, but Christine, I want you to think about me, and I’m going to be good to you, and I’m going to treat Bao as if he’s my own child. So Christine, give me a chance okay?”
Listening to his heartfelt confession, Christine White’s heart could not be said to be unmoved.
But it was only touched, but not intended.
Because she knew very well that she really only thought of him as a friend, but didn’t have feelings for him in that way.
She was destined to fail him.
Thinking about it, Christine White tightened her palms, and in her mind, she had already decided to reject it properly, but as a result, just as she was about to open her mouth, Ives Norton made a gesture for her to keep quiet, and preempted her by saying, “Christine, I know that I’m putting you in a difficult position by telling you all this, so you can start by not having to tell me your answer right away, and I hope that you can think about it for a while.”
He could see that she had just tried to reject him.
And he didn’t want her rejection, so he had to be selfish and block it out.
Christine White also saw his intentions and sighed inwardly, barely tugging at the corners of her mouth, “Good …”
He didn’t want to hear her reject him so quickly.
Then she did as he wished.
But after that, she’d still reject him.
“Thank you, it’s almost time for me to go.” Ives Norton stood up, his tall body shaking a little.
Christine White stepped forward to help him, “Are you drunk?”
“No!” Ives Norton returned with slightly reddened eyes.
Christine White couldn’t help but roll her eyes as she watched his eyes grow misty, “And say no, I’ll let you take you back.”
“No, I can do it myself.” Ives Norton refused.
“Come on, you’re still trying to be brave, how can you drive when you’ve been drinking?” Christine White helped him towards the sofa while making a phone call, asking the hotel to arrange for a driver to come up.
Soon, not ten minutes later, the doorbell rang.
Christine White, knowing it was the driver the hotel had arranged for, arrived, bent down to help Ives Norton up from the couch and set him toward the door.
When I opened the door, there was indeed a man in a hotel security uniform standing outside.
Christine White handed him Ives Norton, “Please take him back to this address.”
Christine White typed a line of the address on her cell phone and held it out to the driver.
The driver made a note of it and nodded, “Yes, I’ll get the gentleman there safely.”
“Thanks.” Christine White smiled and hmmm’d.
Ives Norton helped Ives Norton walk away.
Christine White watched them enter the elevator before turning back to the suite.
When she returned to her room, she saw the table of dishes on the dining room table, but she was in little mood to clean up, her mind filled with Ives Norton’s confession and his words about Bo needing a father on his way up.
The words were a long way from calming her down inside.
It’s true that a mother is an essential role for a child, but so is a father.
Especially for a boy, the role of the father is even more important, he can be the child’s goal on the way to grow up, can be a role model for the child to learn, and can be a guide for the child’s life, and even because of the character of the obstacles, a lot of education can not be taught by the mother to the child, but the father can.Content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.
She knew very well that little baby didn’t like Baird Lane and didn’t react much to Baird Lane as his real father, so she just kept thinking that little baby didn’t need his father, but she never put herself in little baby’s shoes to think about whether little baby needed his father or not, after all, liking it or not was one thing, and needing it was another.
Moreover, Xiaobo is still small, even in precocious maturity, he can’t fully understand the importance of a father, but as Xiaobo grows older, will he still feel that it doesn’t matter if he has a father or not as he does now?
What if, at that time, he wants a father? When he sees that all the other kids have daddies but he doesn’t, won’t he have other thoughts in his mind, won’t he have an inferiority complex?
Thinking about it, Christine White felt her heart clogging up, and she closed her eyes as she headed toward Bo’s room.
Gently pushing open the door to her room, Christine White saw Bo sitting on the carpet playing with a jigsaw puzzle while the Rubik’s Cube, which he had been hugging and not letting go of, was tossed aside.
I guess I’m tired of it. I’ll have to buy a new one with a higher difficulty level.
Because every time Xiaobo doesn’t play with the Rubik’s Cube and throws it aside, it means that the Rubik’s Cube at this stage is no longer difficult for him and it’s time to get a new one, which is what Christine White has summarized in the past two years.
Silently keeping the purchase of a new Rubik’s Cube in mind, Christine White looked at Bo’s tiny back, “Bo, mommy’s coming in oh.”