Substitute Wife For The Blind CEO
Chapter 73: Is It True?

Chapter 73: Is It True?

After getting dressed and leaving the house, Martin was barely halfway down the road when Stefan’s brows furrowed. He tapped the edge of the car door absently, deep in thought.

"There’s something I forgot," he said quietly when he suddenly remembered a file he and Ruby had returned home a night before his accident.

Martin glanced at him through the rearview mirror. "Sir?"

"There’s a file. I brought it home just before..." Stefan paused, his fingers grazing the bandage near his temple. "Before the second accident. It was important. I need it today."

"Should I turn around?" Martin asked wanting to be sure he had heard properly.

Stefan nodded. "Yes. Let’s head back."

The car made a smooth U-turn, and within ten minutes, they were pulling into the driveway. Stefan didn’t wait for the car to come to a full stop before opening the door. He stepped out and walked briskly toward the house, something inside him suddenly restless.

He went straight to his study first. Papers were neatly arranged, books stacked the same way he left them. He opened the drawers, checked the lower cabinet, even lifted a few files he knew weren’t the one he needed—just in case. Nothing.

He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. Then his gaze shifted toward the stairs. Maybe he left it in the bedroom, he thought as he headed upstairs.

He climbed the steps two at a time and pushed open the bedroom door. Ivy stood by the mirror, adjusting a thin scarf over her shoulders. Her earrings shimmered as she turned to face him.

"You’re back?" she asked, surprised. "Did you forget something?" she asked with a slight frown.

"Yes," Stefan said, already walking toward the chest near the window. "There’s a document I brought home a day before I... before the accident. I can’t find it in the study. Might’ve left it here. Have you seen it around?"

Ivy quickly shook her head. "No I haven’t. If it’s not in your study then it should be here somewhere. I have to finish dressing up so I can catch Eliana before she leaves for work," Ivy said not wanting Stefan to suggest looking for the files together.

He simply nodded as he opened the chest and rummaged through it carefully, then moved to the table beside the bed, opening a narrow drawer. Papers, a few receipts, and— his hand paused when he saw the file.

"I’ve seen it," he announced before picking it up and opening it just to be sure.

Then his brows drew together in a confused frown when he realized a slim manila envelope was tucked inside.

What’s this? He muttered as he pulled it out slowly. No label. But the weight of the envelope felt familiar. He opened the flap and drew out a sheet of paper. fre\e(w)ebn ov.e l\. co.m

His heart stopped. It wasn’t some sort of document or anything relating to work at all.

It was a scan result. A sonogram.

His eyes locked on the image, then dropped to the printed details on the side. It was the date of the scan, and the name of the clinic and also who the result belonged to.

It clearly showed that it belonged to his wife so how could it have been inside his document? What was it even? He mused as he tried to focus on it to discern what it was.

"What’s that and why are you so focused on it?" Ivy asked, taking Stefan’s thoughts away from the scan result.

"It’s nothing. I just want to be sure I have everything," he said without taking his eyes off the result.

After studying it fir a while, he realized what it was and what drawing represented. Immediately, his gaze lifted slowly, his mind spinning as he glanced at Ivy.

Is Ivy... pregnant? It was over two weeks since she found out so why had she kept it a secret from him? Was it to surprise him? Had she deliberately kept the result here so that he’d find it and know?

For a second, joy surged through him so quickly he had to steady himself. His throat tightened with emotion, his fingers trembling slightly as he held the scan. He was finally going to be a father and he’d get to see his child’s face.

"Is it true?" he asked, startling Ivy who had been so concentrated with her make up.

What was true? What was he holding? Had Ruby somehow managed to leave clues for him? What was he talking about?

She opened her mouth to explain and ask how he knew but then snapped it shut when another thought crossed her mind.

What if it wasn’t what she was thinking and was probably something else? Besides, Ruby had left the previous day so how could she had dropped that note?

It definitely wasn’t what she was thinking. She thought as she took a closer look at him.

He was smiling. He wouldn’t smile if it was that serious right? Who smiles when they discover something like that?

"What do you mean? I don’t understand." she said instead abd Stefan narrowed his eyes. .com

Hadn’t she dropped the result? Why was she acting so confused? He knew she wasn’t faking it because he could clearly see it in her eyes.

He wanted to ask her if it was true she was pregnant and just get it over with but then another thought followed.

She hadn’t said a word and worse still she looked like she doesn’t even know the context of what he was holding.

Thinking about it, if she were truly pregnant, wouldn’t she have told him something so important?

Maybe she was planning to. Maybe she was waiting for the right moment. Or maybe.... she isn’t pregnant and doesn’t know about this scan. But if she wasn’t pregnant, then who was and why is Ivy Winters clearly written on the result?

"Just asking if it’s true that I look handsome today," he said instead as he folded the paper and slipped it quietly into his inner coat pocket.

"Of course, baby. You look handsome everyday with those stormy gray eyes of yours," she said, throwing him a kiss, glad that she hadn’t spilled everything just because of her misunderstanding.

"Alright. I’ll get going now. Thanks babe," he said as he left the house.

I’ll wait, he told himself. If she is... she’ll tell me. She has to. She was probably shy now. He said as he got into the car and Martin drove off.

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