Chapter 183 - One Hundred And Eighty-three

"Really? Not even a little bit?" She asked with a hint of astonishment. "Angelo come on, you must feel something towards the child."

He huffed a little in irritation and spoke in a harsher tone. "Asking me again and again the same question would be to change the answer. You have an answer, keep it."

"But he is a child. Your child!' she stressed the words trying her best to make a difference but achieved nothing. The man was made of stone.

So she resigned from the topic and leaned back on the couch. this day had been long and hard on her and now she wanted nothing more but to rest.

She could even feel a headache coming away.

But she still wanted to know more. So was a subtle tone she continued the conversation. "Did you never think of marrying the mother of your child?" It was logical. A child would have a better and more stable home and atmosphere to grow up in. 

"I did." He answered but said nothing more after that.

She sighed but didn't leave it alone. "I would appreciate it if you will tell me."

He nodded.

"There is nothing much to tell. She was the one who poked holes in the condom and I did not expect someone to be that desperate. She got pregnant and I had the paternity of kid checked. Came out to be mine and she did expect marriage." He ran a hand on his forehead with tiredness visible on his face.

"But you did not marry her?" She frowned. "I thought you would be supposed to do so."

He nodded, "yes I was but that was only if people knew and I make sure that they did not. She cheated in it and if it had been an honest mistake then  I would have taken responsibility but she chose to deceive me I made sure that she knew the consequences of that."

With curiosity flooding her mind she could not help but ask, "what were the consequences?" Her voice was a bit dimmed as she asked him the question. For as long as she had known Angelo she was sure of the fact that he would not have given her an easy punishment. It would have been something to which thee woman must regret daily. 

"Nothing much. But she cannot marry or date anyone. She wanted to have my child so now, since she had him, I make sure that she would have to keep him above everything else especially herself."

"Because of the act of selfishness." She concluded.

"Yes." He agreed. "She wanted a life of luxury but now I would provide everything for my son and nothing for her."

For a moment Alexis did not feel bad for the woman. It seemed quite justified. She had the strength to do something, to deceive such a powerful man so she should have expected some consequences if he knew. Which he would have, eventually. 

"Angelo, why did you not ever consider to tell me about the child? Even with the way we got married you should have mentioned if not told me about it." her voice gave away how heartbroken she was at the information. How many times they had tried to make this work this information has surely ripped them apart.

"Does it matter?" He asked with a scoff. "You refused to accept the child now."

How daft this man could? She scoffed. "That is all you have to say?"

"I won't accept as a child because you have kept him around behind my back when he should have told me about." She got up and paced around the room as she began to spout words at him not caring about the frequency or volume.

"It's not that I have a problem in accepting the child that is not mine. I can be just as human to him as I am to anyone else if not want to become a mother to him but I would have appreciated it more and welcome him with warm hands if I knew about him before." She massaged her hair and continued, "you're not telling me about him makes him a dirty little secret which I am sure he is not. but what the problem is that you did not tell me about him when you should have in the very beginning!"

She then turned around and looked him dead in the eye.

"Do you understand the gravity of the situation here? I feel like I am separating you and the child why not giving the mother a chance to marry you and give him a happy family!"

"It won't be a happy family with her." He said in a calm voice and that made Alexis knew that he was not lying or joking about the matter, he was just a serious as her. "But it could be a happy family with you."

"With me ?!" She scoffed loudly. "I told you I am not ready to accept the child is good for me when you could have told me about it before the forced marriage for the entire months that we have been Married through."

"Then don't." He shrugged. "I cannot offer you anything more if you are not ready to accept the child. I certainly cannot bring him here and make you deal with his presence constantly only to have you hate me more."

'Yes, thank you but I hate you anyway.' She just stared at him and then turned to looks way. The man was ...a.

There were no words to describe him.

Perhaps she could just think of one and have the Oxford dictionary publish it.

she still felt that somehow he did not understand the gravity of the situation so to make him feel the same.

"What if I had a child and never told you about it? What if he exists and is it there but you, like my husband, have no idea about it?" She said, "How would that make you feel?"