True Love Waits novel Chapter 1160

"What did you say? She's dead?!" Tam's eyes opened wide in shock as he heard something his ears weren't willing to believe. His lips began to tremble.

"You don't even know about it. She's dead! She died while giving birth to Ethan. So tell me, Tam! Where the hell were you when she was crying out your name painfully in the hospital?" Erica bellowed. Tears welled up in her eyes as a painful memory came back and hit her along with the anger.

"But, that's impossible!"

"And yet it happened! So if you still have even an ounce of conscience left, go visit her tomb. I don't even know where she was buried. You can go to the Su family and ask them yourself; they were the ones who took care of her funeral." Not long after Ethan was born, Erica had left with the baby.

She was too young to manage a funeral. Unaware of what to do, she had merely sent people to inform the Su family.

"There must be some misunderstanding. She can't be dead!" Tam was still in denial.

"There is no misunderstanding. She is dead! You can go to the Su family's house and ask. Whatever you do, don't bother me anymore. I don't want to see you ever again, you hear me? Never!" Erica hated Tam so much, but he had still been pestering her with questions. Finally her patience had run out after a short while.

Tam still wanted to ask something, but the disgust in her eyes made him shut his mouth at last. He hesitantly kissed Ethan's soft little hand and then walked away dejectedly.

In retrospect, the man had looked rather calm and composed the whole time he had been talking to her, save for a little moment of excitement upon seeing Ethan for the first time.

It wasn't so impossible when one thought about it for a young girl to fall in love with him. He was rich and handsome, gentle and considerate, and seemed wise. But he was still a married man. It was morally wrong for Erica's friend, or anyone for that matter, to have an affair with this man.

The door was partially soundproof, which meant that although Matthew could hear someone speaking outside the inner chamber, he couldn't make out exactly what they were talking about.

However, he didn't come out of the inner chamber until the conversation outside had subsided completely.

As expected, the man had left. Only Erica was standing there, with the baby in her arms, as if lost in some thought.

Matthew strode towards her and took the baby from her. "Let's go," he said.

"Okay!" The duo left together.

Outside, Tam was still sitting in his car and waiting for Erica to come out. But when he saw Matthew, who was now holding the baby, get into the car with Erica, he finally left.

At the moment, he drew home-wards. He didn't know if he could confront the Su family. At home, his wife, Yanny Gao, was mopping the floor. "Honey, you're back! You must be very tired. It looks like you had a really busy day," she greeted him as enthusiastically as a wife waiting all day long. "Come on! I made some desserts for you. Go wash your hands."

Just as Yanny Gao was about to enter the kitchen, her husband grabbed her hand.

Tam tried to adjust his emotions and as usual, began talking with a faint smile on his lips. "I need to tell you something!"

"Sure? What is it?" She tucked her hair behind her ears and looked at her husband in confusion. This had never happened before.

"When I was on a business trip in A Country two days ago, I went to the welfare house for some charity-related work. There, I saw a little boy who had just been brought in. He's very cute and seems to be completely healthy. We wanted to have a boy in the past, but since you can't get pregnant, how about we adopt him?"

'Adopt a boy?' Yanny Gao was shocked. Her mind went blank for a moment. "But we already have Julianna... I think it's alright to have just a daughter. We're happy so far, right?" Although she couldn't give birth to a baby anymore, they already had a daughter who was grown up now.

She had desired to have a boy as well in the past, but she had given up on the idea after finding out she couldn't. She had never thought of adopting one though.

Tam let go of her hand, patted her on the shoulder and said, "Okay then. It doesn't matter. We won't adopt him if you don't agree."