"Mary Lu! Are you leaving me?" Blue veins bulged on William's hands as he gripped the grills on the iron gate tight. With his eyes wide-open, he shouted in disbelief, "Mary, they are also my children! They belong to us both. They both share our blood!"
"Your blood on them makes me feel sick!" Mary roared. Her aura was the same as William's. "Since they were born, you haven't fulfilled any of your responsibilities as a father. Don't worry, you don't have to do that in the future! The little blood relationship between you and my children is just a filthy existence for me!"
"Filthy?" It felt that someone had punched William in the gut. Nevertheless, William knew that Mary was right. He was, in fact, dirty.
"Do you want to deny it?" Mary snorted and continued, "Don't treat me as an idiot anymore! I didn't know about Sansa nor about the videos, William Lan! How many things have you hidden from me?"
"None! I'm not hiding anything else from you anymore." Hearing that, William clutched the iron door more tightly. With his eyes slightly red, he pleaded, "Mary, believe me for the last time. There's nothing else I'm hiding from you anymore. I... I love you!"
"Love?" That word made Mary look at William. Now, he could see her tears welling up in her eyes. "You love Sansa too. How many portions have you divided your love into? Your body is dirty, and even your heart is impure!"
"No, Mary. You are the only one that I love!" William knocked at the door, making it clang from the outside. "Mary, please open the door. Let's go home... I was wrong! I can't live without you."
"I don't care! William, you can leave now! By the way, we don't have a home. It's my fault that I didn't see your true colors right away. Being with you again is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life!"
Alick and Elissa were standing aside, one crying and the other with red, puffy eyes.
"No, Mary," William pleaded again, "trust me, I will let you... and our children, live a very happy life! Mary, I will never have contact with Frank from now on. Sansa... I will never go to see her again. I've already burned everything. I was just afraid that you would know about her existence. Mary! Please, open the door!"
"William, I only have two children. Please let me go!" Seeing him like this, Mary could not help but cry. "I don't want to be entangled with you anymore. I'm so tired of you! With you, my life is a disaster!"
"No! It won't be in the future! Mary! Mary!" "Mommy! Wooah! Wooah!" Elissa hugged Mary's thigh and said, "Don't quarrel with Dad, okay? I'm so scared!"
"Mommy, don't you want Dad anymore?" Alick also tugged at the corner of Mary's clothes and added, "Dad is so pitiful!"
"Pitiful?" Mary's nose twitched. "William, Alick said you were pitiful. Why do I feel that I am the most pitiful one here? You didn't want to tell me anything. All you did was pretend and make a fool out of me."
"I didn't make a fool out of you." William did not know how to make her forgive him so he started explaining, "I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you would misunderstand. Mary..."
"But now, I know everything!" Through gritted teeth, Mary finished his sentence.
"Mary, what can I do to make you believe me?" William stared at Mary with confused and pained eyes. "Oh! By the way," all of a sudden, his eyes lit up and he continued, "the night of the award ceremony, I was going to propose to you for marriage. I have prepared the ring... The ring... Where is my ring? Wait!"
As he spoke, he anxiously rummaged through his pockets, looking both flustered and helpless.
"Propose for marriage?" Mary smiled with disbelief and said coldly, "Fortunately, you didn't make it. If we got married, would you leave suddenly without telling me again? William, please leave." With Mary's back to him, she added, "I've made up my mind. I won't be with you anymore."
"Mary!"
The fear in William's heart expanded to the limit.
What did she mean by she would not be with him anymore?
"Mary!" William called out with a sharp tone. As he saw Mary walking farther and farther away, his heart broke into pieces. Again, he roared desperately, "I won't leave. I want to be with you! Mary!"
"Dad!"
"Dad! Wooah! Wooah!"
The two kids rushed to the closed iron gate of the villa and pulled William. The kids looked frantic as they cried and wailed.
"By the way," Mary abruptly stopped and said in a cold voice, "Alick and Elissa, if you don't come with me, you can go with William. I'll pretend that I don't know you and I will no longer be your... Mommy."
"Mary, you... How could you be so cruel? Why are you doing this?!" shouted William.
Mary paused for a second, but she walked again without looking back.
If she was really heartless, how could she cry so hard that it was so difficult to speak?
How could it be possible for her to give up the children she regarded as her own life?
"Mommy!" Hearing this, Elissa ran to her and cried, "Mommy, how can you abandon Elissa?"
"And Alick!" Alick also ran over and held Mary's thigh. "Mommy! Don't go!"
Mary held out her hands and led the two kids into the villa.
The two kids turned around to look at William, who was standing pathetically outside the iron gate.
Click.
The door of the villa was closed, and William could no longer see them.
The sky above exuded a gloomy air.
Standing outside the villa, William kept calling out Mary's name. His voice had become hoarse from all the efforts. He did not stop even until his voice was almost gone.
He pushed Mary away from him again. He was really hopeless!
Squeak!
After quite some time, a car suddenly came to halt just in front of the villa. The car door opened with a thud, and two women got off. They looked a bit tired, nevertheless, still capable.
"William Lan!" One of the women who got off the car rushed to William angrily, and shouted, "You bastard!"
William turned to look at the woman and said hoarsely, "Aisha..."
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