Prosperous Marriage: Married to My Brother-in-law-Chapter 443 - 442 The Pregnant Woman, Special Treatment (3)_1

Although Heaven temporarily took away his ability to walk, it granted him the marriage he had always dreamed of.

Therefore, he harbored no resentment, no hatred, and certainly no regrets. Instead, he felt that he had gained a blessing in disguise.

If it hadn’t been for Ruby Bluen’s deep affection for him, for her unwavering commitment to stay by his side, which ultimately touched both their parents, they truly didn’t know how many more hardships they would have had to endure.

Ruby Bluen gently leaned her face closer to his, allowing him to touch it more closely. Her gaze was as tender as spring water, so soft that it made one’s soul ripple, so warm that it felt as though not even a flurry of snow and sub-zero temperatures could freeze one’s heart. Her moist red lips parted slightly, and her soft voice was like a spring breeze, like a mother’s, melodious and filled with love, "If this is truly a dream, let us sink into it together and never wake up."

"Ruby."

Marcel Horne couldn’t help but hold her face with both hands, so moved that he didn’t know what else to say.

Ruby Bluen pressed her finger to his lips, signaling that he didn’t need to say anything else; words were no longer necessary to express what was between them.

「Within a single day, in different places, countless events, both big and small, transpired.」

In the Horne Family home, after lunch, Glades Horne finally disclosed the heavy news of Adele Horne’s pregnancy to the family. The only people home for lunch were Glades Horne, his sister Adele Horne, his wife Julia Bluen, and Mila Anderson. Mila had nothing to do at home other than think about how to raise her unborn grandson to be plump and healthy. Also present was the old lady, who had been steadfastly holding down the home and silently enduring loneliness. Gian Horne was not at home.

With only the two matriarchs of the house present, the news Glades disclosed was enough to set off an explosion in the Horne family’s living room.

The cunning and shrewd old lady, who had weathered countless storms, saw her expression change immediately.

"Glades, say that again?"

Mila Anderson practically screamed.

When Adele lost her innocence, Mila had also worried about this. Later, she consoled herself, thinking that her daughter wouldn’t be so unlucky as to get pregnant from a single encounter. She had even considered that if her daughter did indeed get pregnant, she would persuade her to terminate it. After all, her daughter was an unmarried woman, and she didn’t want to see that one terrible incident destroy her daughter’s lifetime of happiness. Being a single mother is very hard. She couldn’t bear to let her precious daughter endure such hardship.

Moreover, the Horne Family was a distinguished family. When Glades got married, the bride was swapped—a complicated affair involving the sisters. Now, with both sisters effectively marrying into the same prominent household, these events had already attracted intense public interest in the Horne Family’s affairs. Everyone kept a close eye on them, with gossip spreading faster than the internet, turning the family’s issues into dinner table conversation.

Glades was authoritative, and people dared not discuss the news he created for long, but Adele was different. And even if Glades could suppress this, how could he do so forever? Once Adele’s belly began to show, everything would be exposed unless Adele was sent away from T City to hide abroad.

"Mom, that time... I really did get pregnant, and I’ve decided. I’m going to have this baby." Before Glades could repeat himself, Adele spoke up, answering her mother calmly.

Julia Bluen was sitting beside her, and Glades, naturally, was sitting possessively beside his beloved wife.

"Adele, what did you say?"

The old lady couldn’t help but exclaim as well.

Her old eyes widened as she stared at Adele and sternly asked, "Do you know what you’re doing, what you’re saying? You are an unmarried young lady who doesn’t even have a formal boyfriend yet! That incident was not your fault, and now you’re pregnant—fine, that’s not your fault either—but you can’t have this child! You still have to marry someone! How will you find a husband when you have a child? What good man would be willing to marry you, a woman with a child born out of wedlock? What will people think of you, say about you? Have you thought about that? How can you be so willful!" 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Adele, your grandmother is right. Putting aside the hardships of single motherhood, just think about those rumors—they’re enough to kill a person with words. Can you withstand that?" Mila Anderson took over from the old lady, continuing, "Also, once the child is born, they’ll bear the stigma of being an illegitimate child whose father is unknown. Have you considered all this? It’s not good for the child either."

Look, James Horne is an illegitimate child. For over twenty years, how much has James suffered? Not only was he disfavored by his stepmother, but he also endured the way outsiders looked at him. Especially when it became known that James had no claim over the Horne family property and that Glades had taken over the Valence Group, those snobs were superficially polite to James but scorned him endlessly behind his back. James at least knew who his father was, and he still endured so much. In the future, the child Adele might bear, an illegitimate child whose father is unknown, would endure even more than James. Mila was beginning to doubt the feng shui of the Horne family; why did it always seem to produce illegitimate children?

Adele bit her lower lip, her face turning a little pale again. She had thought about everything her mother and grandmother said. But she had still decided to keep the child because the child was hers too. As for her own future, she thought that if she didn’t meet a good man willing to accommodate and accept her and her child, she would be willing to remain unmarried for life, content with only her child’s company.

"Grandma, Mom, I’ve made up my mind, and I won’t change it." After seeing so many helpless and anguished expectant mothers in the hospital, she knew that no one could make her abort the child in her womb anymore.

"Julia, you knew about this, didn’t you? Why don’t you, as her sister-in-law, try to persuade her, say something to her?" Mila Anderson turned to Julia Bluen, trying to control her anger as she questioned her.