The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife novel Chapter 290

"No, Susie. I won't agree with you.” After a while, Julian replied through a hoarse voice, "I'm the father t o the baby, so I've got the right to decide as well. I won't let you keep the baby."

"Don't force me, Julian." Susan bit her lower lips. "If you take the baby away from me, I won’t live. So you have only two options right now. Either the baby or you lose both of us. You make the call."

Julian's hands began to shake uncontrollably. "Why must you do this to me, Susie?"

A wisp of guilt flashed across Susan’s eyes. She then said blankly, "I don't have another choice, Julian. I don't have another choice."

Everyone wanted to abort the baby, and she was the only one her baby could rely on. She had to protect him at all cost.

If the situation required her to save Julian with her own life, she'd do it without any hesitation.

Susan knew it was a tough decision to make, and it clearly hurt him a lot. However, the pain she was going through was no less than him .

She would never give up on the baby no matter what, even if it would cost her own life.

"Susie, you'd rather choose the baby over all of us?"

Jacob croaked out, his voice laced with pain.

"Are you forcing me to, Jacob?” Susan's face turned even paler.

Jacob had a lot of things to say in his mind but his words were all stuck in his throat when he saw Susan's ashen face.

No one was in more pain and felt more pressure than Susan did. Everything he said now would only add salt to the wound.

"How about this, Susie,” Madam Shaw interrupted.

Her countenance had softened up, and she looked much calmer right now. "If you really want to have a child so much, maybe you and Julian can try to do it via in-vitro fertilization."

"Mom?" Julian sounded shocked.

'Wasn’t she insisting on finding us a surrogate mother earlier? What changed her mind?'

"Well, looking at the bright side, even if it is possible for the baby to inherit heart disease, he or she may survive as well. See, Jacob is the best example here. Although his condition is critical, he still made it," Madam Shaw with a hint of pride in her voice. "As the descendant of the Shaws, I believe that the baby is not inferior to others. I've got confidence that even if he inherits the cardiac disorder, he'd be able to pull it through."

After that, she turned over to Susan and offered her a genuine smile. "That being said, I suggest you abort the baby, Susie. You and Julian will have another child in the future."

No one had expected Madam Shaw to make such compromises. It didn't quite go in line with her style o f doing things.

Susan was stunned for a moment as a surge of warmth bloomed within her. She replied softly, "Every baby is an independent individual, and no matter how many kids Julian and I will have in the future, none of them can replace this one inside of me right now. Mom, you're a mother as well. I'm sure you can understand me. This baby is my blood and flesh. If you take him out of me, I'll die."

Madam Shaw opened her mouth and wanted to say something but no words could come out.

In the end, she could only heave a long sigh. She tried t o imagine herself in Susan’s situation. 'If I was the one who encountered such a situation, would I agree to abort the baby?'

Obviously, the answer was no. She'd do everything she could to protect the baby as well, just like Susan did.

Perhaps this was the difference between a mother and a father.

For a mother, the baby was her flesh and blood, and it transcended the boundary of life.

As for the father, without going through the period of carrying the baby inside of them for ten months, it would be difficult for them to fathom the feeling of a mother although the father loved the child as ewll. 1 "Have you made up your mind, Susie?" Madam Shaw asked.

Susan nodded without any hesitation.