The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 237 - 218, She might be pregnant.

Chapter 237: 218, She might be pregnant.

Boyfriend?

At these three words, Mario Jensen felt suffocated. No one knew better than him whether Lina Miller had a boyfriend or not. Ivy Aretha asking this question was too obvious. Could it be...?

Mario Jensen’s heart leaped to his throat as he looked at Ivy Aretha, a trembling voice squeezed out between his teeth: "What do you mean?!"

"What else could it mean!"

Before Ivy could think of how to answer, Michael Gordon glanced at him with a lazy tone and a hint of amusement: "She might be pregnant!"

As the words fell, Michael Gordon saw the shadowy face of the man opposite fade inch by inch to pale. He probably hit the nail on the head, but before he could speak, Ivy Aretha blurted out.

Michael, how do you know?" Ivy Aretha stared at Michael Gordon, dumbstruck. She had never told anyone about this. How could Michael know? They hadn’t even lived together yet, so even if she talked in her sleep, he couldn’t have heard it!

"Wife, you read those useless CEO romance novels every night. Don’t those female leads like to run away with the ball?"

Michael stared deeply at her and pulled her into his arms. "When a woman suddenly runs away, it’s either because she broke up with the man or is carrying an unwanted child and wants to hide and give birth by herself. Lina hasn’t ever mentioned having a boyfriend, and with her daring personality, she wouldn’t hide it if she did. She would’ve publicly announced it. Isn’t that right, Young Master Jensen?"

Mario Jensen stared blankly at Michael Gordon, a torrent of thoughts flooding his mind as he processed everything...

Yes, yesterday she seemed nauseous and wanted to throw up, always unconsciously covering her abdomen with one hand, saying nothing. He had assumed she had eaten seafood and developed an allergy, which she did not deny, but Ethan Stones’ examination confirmed it wasn’t a severe allergy.

He later realized it didn’t seem like a seafood allergy. However, she remained tight-lipped, so he didn’t ask any further, even thinking it might have been cramps during her period!

But he never expected this...

Damn that Ethan Stones, how could he be a doctor and not have checked for pregnancy?!

Mario Jensen was furious and wanted to cut Ethan Stones into a thousand pieces!

"Michael, so you guessed Lina is pregnant based on this?" Ivy Aretha looked at Michael Gordon incredulously, as the novel’s plotline was still different from reality.

"Of course not!" Michael lowered his head and kissed her, taking advantage in front of the heartbroken man to show off his affection, in hopes he’d sober up. "Who admitted her pregnancy in front of so many employees? Naturally, I know best whether you’re pregnant or not. By doing this, you’re just trying to shield that foolish woman, right?"

How could she be pregnant when he hadn’t even touched her? Surely Lina Miller showed signs of pregnancy and his woman couldn’t stand by and watch, so she stepped in to help!

"How can you call her foolish? I think Lina is a good girl. What woman doesn’t love her own flesh and blood? The scoundrel is the man who got her pregnant; from her demeanor, you can tell he doesn’t want to take responsibility. Otherwise, would she have to go through this?"

The thought of Lina becoming a single mother like her, Ivy Aretha suddenly felt a strong kinship, after all, she had been through the same thing!

"Pfft!"

Michael Gordon couldn’t help but laugh; when did his woman become so adorable, cursing someone in front of them? "Wife, isn’t it impolite to criticize someone in front of them?"

Huh?

At Michael Gordon’s words, Ivy Aretha finally understood, looking at Mario Jensen’s grim and distraught face, she grasped the situation instantly.

"Cough cough... " Reminded by Michael Gordon, even Ivy, with her slow reaction, soon realized her mistake and grew awkward. "Senior, I didn’t mean that, I didn’t know..."

Mario Jensen didn’t give her time to apologize, his hoarse voice interrupted: "Did she say whether she wants to keep the child or not?"

Huh?

Is this an admission that the child is his?

Otherwise, he wouldn’t ask this question. If it wasn’t his, he might help Lina deal with the unfaithful man, but he had no right or qualification to ask whether to keep the child or not!

"Senior, is the child yours?"

Although that’s how she thought, Ivy Aretha still asked Mario Jensen, "I promised Lina to keep this secret, so I want to know who the child belongs to."

The man opposite fell silent for three seconds, then lowered his head and spoke out clearly, his hoarse voice bearing a determined tone: "If she’s pregnant, then the child can only be mine!"

"What do you mean?!" Hearing this, Ivy Aretha instinctively tensed up. "What do you mean ’only yours’? Are you trying to cover for her man or protect her reputation? Senior, you need to make yourself clear!"

Mario Jensen’s words were indeed double-edged.

"The child is mine!" Realizing the double meaning in his words, Mario Jensen quickly nodded in explanation, "She’s only been with me!"

He wasn’t afraid to admit it, but saying this in front of Ivy Aretha made it hard for him to look her in the eye, especially since he had repeatedly said he only loved her and that his relationship with Lina wasn’t like that of a boyfriend.

"Then, Senior, this is your fault. How could you not know she’s pregnant? You don’t know how scared she was when she found out, her legs went weak. Senior, did you say something cruel to her? So even after becoming pregnant, she didn’t dare to tell you and chose to run away secretly instead?"

If the child is Mario Jensen’s, and Lina chose to run away secretly, the only possibility is that Mario Jensen had said something cruel to her before, like "Don’t you dare have my child!"

After all, Mario Jensen never acknowledged her as his girlfriend, so it’s normal for him to say something harsh. Aren’t the male leads in romance novels like that, too? Thinking they’re in love with the secondary female lead, flirting with the female lead, and threatening her not to bear his child. Then, when the female lead finds out she’s pregnant, she runs away with the child!

Only then does the male lead truly realize who he loves. Thinking this way, Ivy Aretha looked back at Mario Jensen and found the damn situation seemed like a scene from a novel.

"This is my fault!"

Mario Jensen hung his head low, lost and confused, not bothering to explain that their relationship had started by accident. He simply allowed Ivy Aretha to scold him, repeating at the end, "Did she say whether she wants to keep the child or not?"