Billionaires with Benefits

161 161. The Fight

“That’s right, isn’t it, dad?” asked Clara with a demanding gaze. She didn’t want to accuse her dad without any proof. However, such a thing needed to be questioned. Patrick had a strong motive to abort Clara’s pregnancy at that time. “You’re afraid Dave and his family will call off the engagement if I get pregnant, right? No. They’ll call off the engagement if I get pregnant with someone else’s child.”

Clara was right. At that time, Dave and Clara’s relationship was not very strong. They would cut ties soon. Dave’s family would not allow their son to get engaged and marry a girl who got pregnant at a young age. She was still a teenager.

Which respectable family would still accept their son’s fiancee, allowing their child to do such an embarrassing thing? Although the initial goal of Dave and Clara’s marriage was to unite the Decker family and the Johnson family business, they still would not be willing to endure the shame, as if they could not get a better daughter-in-law than a girl who experienced a teen pregnancy.

If Clara kept the baby, refusing to have an abortion, the Johnson family would let the Decker family bear the shame. They would not want to interfere and take part in a bad situation. So sad but true.

“The reason you kept this a secret from mom and me was of course not because it was to protect me from trauma and mental pressure. But because you wanted to keep this a secret from everyone, right?” Clara demanded again. She wanted to know the truth from her father’s mouth. “So that the Johnson family doesn’t know that I’m pregnant. That’s why you’re keeping this a secret. Isn’t that right?”

“You accuse me of aborting your baby? Am I that cruel to my grandchild?” Patrick defended himself. He widened his eyes. He was acting like an innocent. “I won’t do it!”

“You are lying!” whispered Clara. Clara remembered that doctor Evans gave her two kinds of medicine at the hospital. For early pregnancy, abortion pills were a suitable choice. Doctor Evans could even do that without Clara knowing. “That must be abortion pills! Doctor Evans must have aborted my pregnancy without telling me! That must be you who asked her to do it to me, right?”

“What pills? I didn’t even know about abortion!” Patrick said angrily. He didn’t like Clara chasing after him. “You know, I wasn’t there when you were being treated. I followed Linda home to take her back to the hospital! How could I ask her to perform an abortion?”

“Don’t fool me, dad! In the past, I didn’t know anything about medicine. However, now I know how people have abortions,” Clara said curtly.

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“If Doctor Evans did that, why are you accusing me? It must be the old lady’s fault! Don’t accuse me of mere presumptions!” Patrick snapped with wide eyes, ready to scare Clara as if he could swallow his daughter whole. He was the mastermind behind Clara’s abortion. However, he was good at acting like he was innocent.

He had deliberately left the hospital when Doctor Evans asked Clara to take the abortion pills. He was afraid that if Clara found out he was there, he would be accused of conspiracy to abort Clara’s month-old pregnancy.

“Dad, I know how Doctor Evans is. I know she won’t intentionally abort my baby without a clear motive,” said Clara confidently. Her finger was up, pointing at her father right in his evil face. “If she did that, it must be because you asked her, dad!”

“I told you, don’t accuse me without proof, you silly brat!” Patrick’s hand went up. He was about to slap Clara again, and it must have been very hard and powerful.

Clara closed her eyes. She knew the fire of anger had been burning ferociously in Patrick’s eyes. She won’t survive.

A second later, the sound of a very loud slap was heard, filling the room where the three people were fighting. However, Clara felt no pain in her left or right cheek. No part of her body hurt because of the torment from Patrick’s big hands.

When Clara opened her eyes, it was then, she knew why she had survived. In front of her, she found Linda’s face flushed from a heavy slap on the cheek. Linda’s nose and mouth were bleeding, much more than Clara’s. The pain must also be many times more than Clara’s pain.

“Mom! What did you do to mom, dad?” Clara screamed while hugging her mother who now fell into her arms due to the power of Patrick’s slap.

“Linda!” Patrick’s eyes widened to find his wife who was seriously injured by his slap. He didn’t expect that Linda would be the one to get hit by the hard slap he did with all his might. “Why are you protecting this damn child?”

“Because she’s my daughter, Patrick,” Linda answered without hesitation.

“Nonsense. You’re not even Clara’s birth mother! You picked her up because you didn’t want to bear the shame that I had an illegitimate child, didn’t you?” Patrick asked in disbelief. His hands were shaking after hitting the person he loved.

Linda laughed at Patrick’s words. Her bruised lips said in trembling pain, “You’re too petty, Patrick! I may not be her biological mother. She is not my blood and flesh. However, in my heart, there is always her. I love her as I love my son.”

“Impossible! You can’t do that,” Patrick refused, shaking his head several times because he didn’t accept his wife’s explanation.

“And if you don’t want to admit her as your daughter, then let her be mine. I would be happy to put Frederick as her last name!” muttered Linda, looking at Patrick defiantly.

“What do you mean, Linda?” Patrick asked in disbelief.

“Isn’t that obvious, Patrick?” whispered Linda, she brought her face closer to her husband’s. “I will leave you. A ruthless man like you doesn’t deserve to be loved.”