Chapter 985 You Can't Keep the Baby
Tommy watched all that happened. He thought for a while, then ran upstairs to look for Jack.
Jack carried Tommy and walked down the stairs. He saw Leia fall to his knees to beg for forgiveness from her mother. "Please
forgive me, Mom. I'm begging you, please don't be angry, alright? I don't want the baby anymore. I'll go and get it induced
tomorrow. Don’t cry." "Are you crazy? I won’t let you do that," Queenie exclaimed in surprise.
Jack frowned. "What's going on?"
As soon as he spoke, the three people in the living room turned their heads toward the stairs. When Leia noticed him, she stood
up and turned her body away.
As her adoptive daughter for twenty years, Leia knew her father's temperament.
If she remained on her knees, Jack would definitely keep her kneeling as punishment.
The floor was hard, and she had a bulging stomach. She would not be able to take it.
"Dad." Leia shifted her body to hide the bulging stomach from him.
Jack had already noticed her stomach. He put Tommy down and walked over. "Turn around."
Leia shuddered but did not move. "Is there something, Dad?" "What's going on with your stomach?" Jack walked toward the
couch. Leia would not be able to hide it anymore.
Leia turned around while trembling. She lowered her head to hide the malice in her eyes and began to cry. "I'm sorry, Dad. It's all
my fault. You can hit me."
She spoke loudly enough so that everyone in the living room could hear that. Queenie clutched her heart and looked like she
would pass out at any time.
Jack glared at Leia's round and bulging stomach sternly. He was no expert in obstetrics, but he could tell that the pregnancy was
more than three months.
"Is the child a Hilton?" He asked, furious after seeing that Brody had already left while Queenie was sitting on the couch with a
pale face.
How dare that man leave while the Norman household is in chaos?
Leia sobbed and nodded. She tried to squeeze tears from her eyes to evoke pity from her parents. "It's all my fault, Dad. The
child is innocent."
She was about to fall on her knees again. Queenie's heart softened when she saw her frail daughter with a bulging stomach.
She took her daughter's hand and wanted to say something before tears fell from her eyes again. She shook her head and
looked at her husband.
The Normans did not own a big corporation, but they were fairly well- known in A City.
She thought that the daughter she had raised had become pregnant before marriage and felt that she had failed her husband
and her family. Her daughter would become the subject of ridicule, and her husband's reputation might be affected.
Bianca sighed, gently patted Queenie's back, and said, "Dad, Leia isn't in the physical condition to be punished. Shouldn't we
come together as a family and work out a solution?"
Jack became angrier as he glared at Leia's bulging stomach. However, he was sensible enough not to place his anger on
Bianca.
He sat down and glared coldly at Leia.
She shuddered again. She might hate them both, but she was nonetheless scared of Jack.
She was already tired from standing, but without her parents' permission, she dared not move a muscle.
Bianca sighed again. That should have been none of her business, but she could only blame herself for visiting at the wrong
time.
"Dad, won’t you let Leia sit down? She's already heavily pregnant," she advised.
Jack grunted coldly and pointed at the couch opposite him. "Sit down and tell me everything from the start."
Leia weakly wiped away her tears and sat on the couch. Instantly, her weary feet felt a lot better.
Under the gaze of the three people, Leia repeated her story, shifting the blame to Brody.
Jack was livid after hearing that. His hatred for Brody shot through the roof as he glared at Leia's bulging stomach. "Contact the
hospital. The baby cannot be kept alive!"
He wanted to abort the baby and have Leia cut all ties with the Hilton family.
"No." "No!" Two people objected at once. One was Queenie, and the other was Leia.
"I don't want to lose this baby, Dad. I've already carried it for so many months. I don't want it to go away..." Leia caressed her
stomach and begged. She sounded so sincere that one might be forgiven for forgetting that she had tried to medically abort the
baby.
"She's already so advanced in her pregnancy. It would be harmful to her body if the baby is aborted now. We can't do that,"
Queenie said.
Jack was feeling very upset by the two women. He turned to look at Bianca.
Bianca knew that Jack was asking for her opinion. However, she also knew that her opinion might not be something Jack wanted
to hear at that moment. She shut her mouth and shook her head.
Tommy leaned quietly on Bianca. He did not know what was going on among the adults.
Jack pressed his lips together tightly, not willing to negotiate.
Leia was beginning to be afraid. She looked at Queenie, hoping that her mother would speak up for her. If she lost the baby, she
would not have a hold on Brody.
Brody might have been disrespectful earlier, but he wanted the child very much.
If the child was aborted, Leia did not know how he was going to react. Her reputation was already in tatters. If word got out that
she had gotten pregnant before marriage and had aborted the baby, she would not be able to survive in A City anymore!
Queenie understood the agony of losing a child. She thought that Leia really wanted the baby, so she held Bianca's hand and
said, "Please talk to your father, Bea."
Bianca's heart wrenched when she saw Queenie's tear-streaked face.
Queenie seemed a lot older than before. Perhaps she had been excessively worried over Leia. If Jack insisted on aborting the
baby, Queenie's past traumas might return.
Even though Bianca was reunited with her birth parents, Queenie had always felt that she was indebted to her, and she was
always depressed about it.
Bianca knew what to say to cause the least damage to Queenie.
"I know what you are thinking, Dad. You feel that Brody is not a good match for Leia, so you want to abort the baby and cut all
ties with the Hilton family, and Leia can have a fresh start. However, the abortion will have long -lasting effects. It'll be very
damaging to her body, not to mention that it will be a psychological obstacle," she spoke gently.
Jack was not too perturbed when he heard that the abortion would be damaging to her body. "She's still young, and the damage
can be reversed. I can hire a midwife and a nurse to take care of her. The baby cannot live!"
Queenie wiped her tears and said, "Don't be muddled, Jack. You should know how agonizing it was when we lost Bea. How
could you let Leia suffer the same agony?"