Shea lowered her head at Sandra's words. The burden she had been carrying felt slightly lighter.
Wesley was relieved when he noticed that Shea was not as stubborn as she was earlier.
As expected, it was because of his mother that Shea had risked crossing Elliot to bear him a child.
He understood that her obedience to his mother was out of her love for him, or she would not have taken his mother’s wishes as commands.
"I do really want grandchildren, but my son is the most important of all," Sandra said with regret. "Had I known that you are more important than life itself to him, I wouldn't have done something like that."
Shea lifted her gaze to look like Wesley.
"Shea, let's go and apologize to your brother later." Wesley held her hands. "You hurt his feelings yesterday. I need to apologize to him as well. I promised him that I would take good care of you, but I failed to fulfill said promise."
"No." Shea shook her head stubbornly. "I will apologize to Big Brother, but you shouldn't."
Wesley knew that Shea did not want him to take the blame, so he agreed. "Alright." He could always apologize to Elliot in private.
At noon, Avery received a call from Wesley.
"Avery, I've managed to convince Shea. Once Elliot is home from work, I will bring Shea over to apologize to him."
"You don't need to apologize. How did you manage to convince her?" "My mom did," Wesley explained with resignation. "It was my mom who pressure her into getting pregnant to begin with."
"As long as she got Shea to give up." Avery fell into silence for a few moments, before continuing, "It's a shame that she has to get rid of the baby, though."
"She's in a bad mood right now. She locked herself in the room and refused to come out when I tried calling her out for lunch."
"I guess apart from being pressured by your mom, she wanted the child herself." Avery felt sympathetic. "Wesley, there is another way."
"You mean to take the embryo out?" Wesley had heard about it before, but where were they supposed to implant the embryo after taking it out?
"Yeah." Avery had not gone to the office because she had a headache. Despite the pounding pain in her head, she spared some time to consider Shea's situation. "I did some research today
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