Chapter 68 Bearing His Child
She had a dream about the hotel room yet again. In the dream, there was a vague shadow of a young person standing in the corner of the room. However, as she tried to approach the person, a hole appeared under her and she fell deeper into the dark, empty void.
Having lost track of the time, Savannah wasn’t sure how long she had spent sleeping when she woke up. In front of her was Emmett, who had already woken up and was fiddling with her phone.
Surprised, she quickly got up and snatched her phone back before querying, “What are you doing with my phone?”
“Why the overreaction? Are you hiding something from me?” Emmett asked directly.
“No. It’s nothing.” Savannah checked her phone and saw that the notifications showing on the screen were just the previous missed calls; nothing more. After realizing that Emmett didn’t get through the passcode of her phone, she let out a relieving sigh.
Emmett then glanced at her with his hands spread out and explained, “Sydney was calling you and the ringing woke me up from my sleep. Since I didn’t want the ringing to disturb you from your slumber, I took it upon myself to turn down your phone’s ringtone volume.”
Savannah aligned her eyes with his and replied, “Oh, I see. Thanks for your concern.”
Emmett broke eye contact with her before uttering in a chilling voice, “Where’s the hair that you got from Osborn? Give Sydney a call and give them to her.”
“Ahh?” Savannah responded in an incredulous tone.
“Did you not understand what I’ve said?” asked Emmett.
“No, I do. The few strands of Osborn’s hair are in the bathroom.” Although Savannah was still holding a grudge against Sydney, she had no choice but to get on her good side in the hope that Sydney would look after her child at the Avery residence.
“You’ll have to feign ignorance on everything that has happened before and just follow through on your promise with her by letting her marry into the Quaker family,” advised Emmett.
“You really think that’s the only way? Are there no other options?” Savannah felt that Emmett wasn’t acting like his usual self today.
“I’ve always thought that they were destined for each other. That being said, make sure to inform me first before you do anything for Sydney. I won’t allow the same thing that happened today to occur again. You got that?” warned Emmett as he let out a cold smile.
“Okay, I understand.” Savannah stood up and went straight to the bathroom.
Just like Emmett wanted, she gave Sydney a callback.
“Why didn’t you pick up my phone just now?” Sydney answered the phone angrily.
Livid, Savannah managed to keep her sangfroid as she replied, “I was busy with something just now and my phone was away from me. Regarding the hair that you wanted, I have them in my hands right now.”
Sydney went quiet for a few seconds before bombarding Savannah with questions, “You have the hair on you? Then… Then have you seen Osborn at the Quaker residence? Did you talk to him? Did you get his hair from his room? Did anything happened between you two when you were in his room…”
“What do you think would happen between us?” Savannah knew that she was trying to find out whether Osborn did something indecent to her or not.
Since it was Sydney who told Osborn beforehand that Savannah would enter his room, she was certain that something would have happened between them in his room.
From Savannah’s tone, Sydney could tell that she was furious. She then responded with the same attitude, “You think I did this willingly? If you hadn’t seduced him before when you were at the Quaker residence, he wouldn’t be so obsessed with you now! Can you please stop seducing every man that you see? Your slutty personality disgusts me.”
“Stop spouting nonsense! I didn’t seduce anyone! On the other hand, you wanted to marry him, and yet you could put up to a request like this from him? You’re the disgusting one here!” Savannah retorted without holding back.
Sydney chuckled and said, “Drop that high and mighty attitude of yours. I don’t think what I did was abhorrent. If I want to be his wife, I’ll need to put up with him fooling around with other women. I already knew this since the day I decided to marry him.”
Savannah let out a gasp before criticizing her, “You call this love? If you truly love him, you wouldn’t be able to accept him having another woman. What you really love is the position, power, and wealth that you could gain from marrying him.”
“So what if that’s the case? I can have everything that I desire if I marry him. Why talk about something as abstract as love?” said Sydney in a justified manner.
“You’re despicable.” Savannah finally saw her true colors. So she’s the abhorrent type of person who would deign to do anything just to achieve her goals.
“It would seem like Osborn didn’t get to have his way with you. Instead, you managed to get his hair. I guess I’ve underestimated you. But enough chit-chat, send me his hair as soon as possible,” Sydney instructed.
“I’ll send them over later,” replied Savannah.
“There’s no one in the house except me right now. You can even check up on your child if you come quick enough.” Sydney emphasized the word child to remind Savannah that she had leverage against her.
Upon hearing the sound of the bathroom door opening, Savannah immediately hung up the phone.
Emmett, who just walked out of the bathroom, glanced at her and queried, “So, have you contacted Sydney?”
Savannah nodded while checking the time on her phone. After realizing it was already two o’clock in the afternoon, she uttered, “She wants me to send them over as soon as I can. So I thought I’ll head over to the Avery residence right now.”
“Okay, I’ll get someone to drive you there,” offered Emmett.
Savannah accepted his offer and went to change her clothes. Having done changing, she queried, “What should we do after she had gotten the DNA report?”
Emmett let out a laugh and corrected her, “There’s no we; there’s only you. Don’t lump me in with you. It’s your choice to help Sydney marry Osborn. I am but a bystander.”
“Oh,” Savannah responded awkwardly.
After pushing the door open, she saw a food trolley parked outside the room. On the trolley was a hot, simmering soup complemented with rice and various other appetite-inducing dishes. “This was brought here by Mary right?” she asked Emmett.
Emmett walked to the door to check out the trolley before replying, “I’d assume she was afraid to wake us up so she had someone to leave the food trolley here.”
“Well then, you can have the food all to yourself. I’m full.” Savannah tried to push the food trolley into the room but was hindered by Emmett.
“Drink the soup before you go,” instructed Emmett.
Looking at the large bowl of soup, Savannah uttered, “You want me to drink all of this? That means you…”
“Yes, I dislike soup.” Emmett gave her a look of anticipation as he waited for her to drink the soup.
With no other choice, she lifted up the bowl of soup and a faint smell of herbs made its way into her nostrils. She had a feeling that Emmett knew the herbal soup was prepared for her and he deliberately made up an excuse for her to finish it. Jeez, even Emmett is starting to act like Agatha and Mary.
In one breath, Savannah gulped down the soup like she was drinking medicine. “I’ve finished it. I shall go now.” She put the empty bowl back to the trolley and headed out.
Satisfied, Emmett nodded and let her leave.
Gazing at the back of Savannah as she walked down the stairs, he thought to himself, if this woman was to bear a child of mine, perhaps then, her heart and body will finally be mine and mine alone. No one else could ever come between us.
Having her stomach full of soup, Savannah was on the edge of puking when she was in the car.
If this continued on, more and more things would be exposed sooner or later. Later when she met Sydney, Savannah would need Sydney to fill her in with the intricacies of the escape plan.
