A Vengeful Ex-Wife novel Chapter 490

'So that's still not the reason, huh?' James was confused. "Is your period coming?" He had heard that women's temper would become terrible a few days before their menstrual cycle, and that they would get mad at the most trivial thing.

The word "period" only served to anger Maria even further because she had to say goodbye to her period for the next nine months.

She pinched his cheeks as hard as she could. "You wretched man!"

James thought that her period was coming, so he took her hands off his face and said, "Mia, I'll prepare some brown sugar water for you. Just don't be mad at me."

Maria closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself down. "James, you're awesome!" He was so good at impregnating women that it only took him one try to make her pregnant. She had to admit that he was really good at it!

"What?" At this point, James became even more confused.

This time, Maria didn't respond to him and walked out of the study in silence.

Upon hearing his footsteps behind her, she turned about and commanded, "Don't you dare follow me! Leave me alone!" She said that because she wanted to decide whether to keep this baby or abort it.

"Okay," James replied flatly. After that, he decided not to follow her.

On her own, Maria wandered the manor to contemplate on the matter of James and the baby.

Although he didn't follow her, he told John to connect the surveillance cameras within the manor to his laptop. At the very least, he could keep an eye on Maria this way.

Around ten minutes later, Maria was sitting in the pavilion when something dawned on her. She had been so emotional earlier that she forgot to get rid of any evidence that would prove she was pregnant.

It was at this point that James got up and went to the bathroom in the master's bedroom.

There was really no reason he would go here other than to pee.

After flushing the toilet, he went to the sink to wash his face. Accidentally, he caught sight of something that piqued his curiosity.

Upon realizing what it was, his eyes widened in surprise.

He was so excited, but he withdrew his hand from grabbing the object. Calmly, he turned on the tap, washed his hands, and used the hand sanitizer to cleanse them.

Once he was certain they were clean, he took out a piece of tissue to wipe the water from his hands and threw it into the bin.

Only then did he walk to the box where the toilet papers were placed, and picked up the stick.

With the other hand, he took out his phone and searched for something online. "What do two bars on a pregnancy test stick mean?"

Outside the villa, Maria was praying that James hadn't been to the bathroom yet as she quickly strode back inside.

However, when she was still dozens of meters away, a familiar figure caught her sight.

He was wearing a high-end tailor-made suit and slippers. Regardless of his image, he was running towards her.

Maria stood frozen, unable to walk forward. If she wasn't mistaken, there was a smile on his face.

'I'm too late, aren't I? He probably already saw the stick.'

Soon, he stopped in front of her and embraced her, gradually tightening his arms around her.

Maria could hardly breathe while he was embracing her. "What are you doing? Let me go!"

"Mia, no matter what happens, I'll stay by your side through everything this time." He had failed her three times, and he wasn't planning to fail once more.

Maria didn't want to beat around the bush anymore. "So, you've seen it, haven't you?"

"That's right."

She pushed him away and stared into his eyes. "I don't plan on keeping it."

James was stunned.

And today, she was pregnant with another one of his children. Had he not seen the pregnancy test earlier, he might not have known about this.

Perhaps it was due to his own negligence of her that he didn't know that she was pregnant the first few times.

Tears welled up in Maria's eyes as she stared into the distance. "James, you sound so down-to-earth right now."

"So what?" She had done the same thing for him in the past, hadn't she? He would do whatever she had done in order to convince her to stay.

It wasn't a big deal. Maria let out a sigh. She had to admit that she was touched by his earnest feelings right now.

She didn't want to discuss the child's matter with him since James would never agree to abort it.

Honestly, Maria had zero intentions of talking to him about this.

Soon, James drove her to the hospital for a checkup. She was indeed pregnant, and the time of pregnancy was in line with their expectations.

While Maria was still thinking about if she should keep the baby, James told his grandparents about her pregnancy and their two sons. He also told everyone that should know about it.

Before long, her pregnancy was known to everyone.

James had never been one to announce his private life. Maria knew why he was doing this. He was doing this to force her to keep the child.

And this method was an effective one. But it all honesty, she didn't have the heart to kill this child.

Not to mention, James' grandparents had moved back to the manor; even Gabriela visited the manor from time to time. She would always say that she was there to visit her grandsons, but she would occasionally take care of Maria, too.

More than anyone, Bob and Coy were the most excited. They would always be around Maria, guarding her belly dutifully.

Aside from that, they kept asking if their new sibling was a boy or a girl.