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Leah hesitated for a moment, forcing a smile, “That’s why I said luckily the child is okay…”
“Yeah, Matt, what’s the deal with you treating Leah like this as soon as you come back? She could go into labor at any moment, she can’t handle this. I know you’re upset about Marissa’s death, but Leah is pregnant, at least consider her feelings a little bit, Ava spoke up, helping to improve Leah’s complexion.”
Matt looked at Leah and his parents, then suddenly smirked.
“What did she do after all, she knows it herself!” he shouted for the butler, “Play this video, let them all see clearly, the true face of this woman!”
The butler nodded and skillfully operated the large screen in the living room. Leah felt uneasy and her face turned pale when she saw the surveillance footage. Everything she had done was being played back.
All the ugliness, slander, and things that should not have happened were etched on Leah’s face, making her complexion pale:
“Matt, listen to me… It’s not what you saw, there’s a reason for everything… she tried to explain, her face pale.”
“In the past, I trusted you too much, which was the reason why I didn’t expect you to do so many slanderous things to Marissa.” Matt read it for the second time, feeling even more pain in his heart, as if he had been cut by a knife. He dared not think about it. If he was in so much pain now, how much more difficult must it be for Marissa to go through all this?”
He stared at Leah intently, “I will not have another wedding, Marissa is
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the only wife I will have in this lifetime. As for the child in your belly, I will not be staying, we…”
Before he finished speaking, Ava had already disagreed and rebutted.
“Do you know what you’re saying! After all these years, the Holloway family finally managed to have a child, and you don’t want it! I’m telling you, it’s not possible, this child must stay, Leah must also become the daughter–in–law of the Holloway family, Marissa is already dead!”
Leah had not even smiled yet when Matt took a cold glance at his own parents.
In the past, he always felt that as long as he finished this matter, he could make it up to Marissa. As for his parents, he also felt indebted to them. After all, for so many years, their wish was to have a child. But now, he would not let anyone who had bullied Marissa off the hook, nor would he compromise.
“Years ago, there was an accident. Marissa got injured trying to save me, damaging her uterus and making her unable to conceive. For all these years, I owe her a life, not the other way around.”
After he finished speaking, Ava was stunned for a moment, as if she hadn’t expected things to turn out this way. But soon she let it go.
“Even so, Marissa is now dead, cherishing the present is most important. Matt, don’t say those angry words, the wedding can be not reorganized, but the child must stay, this is the legacy of the Holloway family.”
Hope ignited in Leah’s eyes as she waited for his agreement.
But before Marissa had the accident, he had already compromised too many times and disappointed her too many times.
Matt didn’t hesitate this time. “No way. Not only am I not going to have
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this child, but I’m also going to make Leah pay for it!”
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“Dad, Mom, you don’t need to worry about these things, Matt spoke up, his tone brooking no argument.”
Family rules could punish him, but they couldn’t take away his rights. Now, the Holloway family is basically his.
His eyes were piercing, which scared Ava. “You, you are being extremely disrespectful!”
Today, for Marissa, I will go against all norms. Butler, show the guests out! he said firmly, no longer looking at Cayden and Ava’s panicked expressions.”
He turned around, with only Leah left in his eyes.
The woman shivered as she stepped back, “Matt, I can really explain those things, please, don’t lay a hand on our child, okay? This is our child!”
Matt approached step by step, his tone extremely cold, “This is not our child, this is the child you stole, I said I want you to pay back everything to Marissa.”
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