Chapter 215: As the Child’s Father

Chapter 215: Chapter 215: As the Child’s Father

To avoid being noticed, Ryan Sterling hadn’t dared to put Evelyn Grant in a VIP room. She was in a standard ward, but no other patients were ever admitted to it.

After all, Alex Grant needed quiet to study, and Evelyn Grant needed to rest.

He had thought of everything he could do for them.

Ryan knew it was over between them, but still...

...he wanted to do something more for Evelyn.

Even if it was just a little thing.

He told himself that he wasn’t doing these things because he still loved Evelyn. It wasn’t because he couldn’t let her go. It was only because the child she had miscarried was his.

As the child’s father, it was his duty.

Ryan refused to think about anything else. He wouldn’t admit to it.

...

When Florence Morgan got home, she couldn’t stop agonizing over whether to help her eldest son one more time.

’If I help him, I’ll risk a complete and total break with my younger son.’

’Our relationship might never be repaired!’

’But if I don’t...’

Julian Sterling was her own flesh and blood.

To see him in so much pain... He used to be the proud, high-flying president of The Sterling Group, and now he was reduced to this—a man willing to get on his knees and beg her.

Florence couldn’t bear it.

"What’s wrong?"

Mr. Sterling asked, confused by his wife’s demeanor.

"Sigh... who else but Julian?" Florence then told her husband everything that had happened recently.

And just like that, the two of them were agonizing over it together.

After thinking long and hard, Mr. Sterling finally spoke. "Why don’t you... just help Julian one more time? If you’re worried something will go wrong and Ryan finds out, just say that I’m sick. I’ll be the one to feign the illness this time."

Florence looked at her husband and frowned. "What difference does it make if it’s you or me? It’s all the same! If he finds out, Ryan will definitely wash his hands of us!"

"It’s not the same. If things go wrong, you can use me as the scapegoat! Just say I made you do it, and that you didn’t even know I was pretending to be sick. Wouldn’t that solve it?"

Mr. Sterling had always kept out of such matters. Ever since retiring from the company, he had been living a quiet, retired life.

His wife, Florence, handled all family matters, big and small.

But this time, after much thought, he felt he could no longer just stand by and watch.

Otherwise, the Sterling family was heading for even greater scandals and ridicule down the line.

He didn’t want to see that happen.

Besides, as their eldest son, both Mr. Sterling and Florence Morgan had always been at least a little biased in Julian’s favor.

So, after all their agonizing, helping him was a decision they were bound to make sooner or later.

’In that case, why not sooner?’

"Aren’t you afraid of ruining your relationship with Ryan? Sigh... You have to remember, when you were sick before, Julian was so caught up with that Jane Jacobs that he couldn’t come up with a single cent. But Ryan... Ryan paid for all your medical expenses! And he never once mentioned us paying him back."

Florence had her own reservations.

Her younger son was nothing like her elder one.

After graduating from college, he hadn’t inherited any of the family’s assets. Instead, he chose to go out and start his own business.

It was a struggle, of course.

If Florence said her heart didn’t ache for her son, it would be a lie.

It’s just...

Now that both her sons had fallen for the same woman, they, as parents, were forced to choose a side.

"Then tell me, what should we do? If Julian keeps torturing himself like this, he’ll end up with depression! Can you bear to see that happen?"

"..."