The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 410 Autumn Got Pregnant

Even though Charles knew that Autumn didn't do that on purpose, he could not help but feel a pinch of disappointment with her.

"Never mind, it was just a simple meal." Leila said with a rather assuring smile, "Please do help yourself."

Leila wasn't hungry but she kept persuading and urging Charles to eat more.

"Mr. Lu, can you... please tell me what happened?" Leila encouraged him to open up, "Maybe you will feel better once you speak it out. And you can trust that whatever you tell me will remain between us." "I am fine." Charles let out a bitter smile as he simply could not even think of troubling anyone else with his burden.

"Then... you can just tell me whenever you decide to talk about it with others." Leila drew the line there and stopped nudging him to open up as she knew how Charles didn't like the women who were too enthusiastic around him. She cleaned up the table carefully after dinner and said to Charles, "I need to leave now, Mr. Lu."

"Hold on." Charles put on his jacket as he offered, "I'll drop you back home. It's the least I can do."

Charles wanted to express his gratitude for Leila in a way that he could.

Leila nodded her head in approval. This had presented itself as a perfect opportunity to draw closer to him and she had absolutely no reason to refuse it.

On their way to Leila's home, she didn't say anything because Charles wasn't in a good mood. When his car pulled over outside her home, Leila said, "Would you join me upstairs for a cup of tea?"

"No, thank you. I have troubled you enough for one night." Charles didn't want to go home but that did not mean he would brazenly head to another woman's house and betray Autumn.

He finally decided to go home. Once he reached, the living room was pitch dark and he saw Autumn perched on the sofa with a sad expression as switched on the light. Autumn stared back at him and asked, "Where did you go? Why have you come home so late?"

"I was occupied with quite a lot of work in the office." Then he added, "It is quite late. Why didn't you just go to sleep?"

"You are lying!" Autumn yelled at Charles with hatred and disgust, "I called you on your personal extention number in the office. You were not there! So I ask you again where did you go?"

"I told you I was working in the company. What is it that you want to hear?" Charles got impatient. Her interrogation and accusations did not annoy him, but... instead he was confused as to why Autumn refused to go to hospital and get treatment.

Charles felt like he was about to go insane after such a long time. So, when he returned and had to face Autumn's vexatious inquiry, he almost lost his temper.

"I just want to know where you went. If you didn't do anything wrong, then why are you hesitating to tell me the truth?" Autumn walked up towards Charles and said, "Just tell me if you have a mistress outside the bounds of this house."

"No! No! No!" Charles felt so weak from her attacks. He looked into her eyes and said, "Everyday you ask me these same questions. When will this maddness stop? You are sick and you need to receive treatment in hospital. I can't bear to handle you any more."

"I'm not sick!" Autumn flashed an angry stare at Charles, almost as though the man standing in front of her was not her husband but an enemy.

"What are you arguing about?" Their angry and loud exchanges woke Chris up. She came out of her bedroom and persuaded Autumn, "Autumn, you are the only woman my brother loves. I can assure you that until my last breath. He will never have any mistress. He could not bear to disappoint you. Please trust him."

"You are lying!" Autumn didn't believe what Chris was saying either. She sneered as she responded, "You two sibblings have united to cheat me. You don't understand me at all and just don't want me to know the truth."

Autumn had the same maddening dream everyday. It had convinced her and gripped her stronger than reality itself.

In her dream, Charles dated different women almost every day without even looking in her direction.

She couldn't differentiate between the dream and reality so she questioned Charles again and again.

Chris was just about to speak to Autumn when Autumn pushed her aside and shouted, "Leave me alone. Don't touch me!"

"You don't think you are enough for me, Autumn Zhao?" Charles frowned and said, "I promised you time and again that I would never betray your trust because I only love you. So now what can I do to make you believe me?"

But really what else could he do now?

To be honest, Autumn didn't know the answer either. All she knew was that her doubts and concerns were clouding her mind.

It seemed that she was split into two persons. One was asking her to trust Charles and calm down while the other rather irrational side yelled at her not to trust him because he was a liar.

She painfully hugged her head with hands and squatted. She wanted to tell Charles that she was not doing all this on purpose but before she could utter anything she fainted and collapsed onto the floor. "Autumn! Autumn..." Charles immidiately rushed to her aid and supported her head under his palms as he kept calling her name. But she didn't respond. Charles then immidiately rushed her to the hospital. After a rather quick examination, the doctor told Charles with concern, "She is healthy in body but..."

"But what?" Charles looked at the doctor nervously and said in a rather anxious tone, "You can just tell me about her real condition."

"We have found a lot of medicine in her system which has led her to develop a mental disorder. This medicine could have caused severe damage to her mind. We can't ascertain the extent of this damage without conducting some more tests. But this is the reason why she always has nightmares and could not distinguish between dreams and reality. Moreover, another side effect is her bad temper and also violent behavior." Then the doctor asked Charles, "How long... have these symptoms been appearing?"

"From the beginning of this new year right up till now." Charles considered for a moment as he recalled the recent past and answered the doctor honestly.

"No, actually this has been happening since the end of the last year." Sam said abruptly, "Doctor, I felt that she was weird before the new year. Her memory got foggy then but it wasn't so severe as it is now, so I didn't think much about it."

Charles frowned and looked at Sam. He believed Sam was right but...

He wondered why he didn't notice these glaring abnormal symptoms of Autumn especially when even Sam had found them.

In that moment, he felt he neglected her and was an unqualified husband.

"It seems that she has been taking this medicine for a long time only that could explain how the effect is so adverse." Charles got restless as he heard the bad news from the doctor. He asked, "Can it be cured?"

"Yes, it can, but..." The doctor looked at Charles with reluctance and disappointment.

"But what?" Charles' heart was now beating outside his body out of nervousness. He urged the doctor to tell him so the doctor had to speak out honestly, "Mrs. Lu is pregnant. If we use medicines to treat her disease, it could be fatal to the baby in her womb. So I think... you can have a discussion with her once she wakes up and make a decision together."

"There is no need to discuss this with her especially when she is mentally unstable. Just get rid of the kid!" Charles said affirmatively. They could always try for another baby in the future. But if Autumn died because of this baby, Charles would never forgive himself.

"No!" Charles heard Autumn's voice just as he made the decision for them. She looked rather weak after knowing what happened from Chris. She commanded Chris to take her there and find out the truth about her disease. Unexpectedly, she heard Charles' talk with the doctor.

She knew what Charles did was for her sake, but she was the mother of the baby. It was in her womb and she couldn't be so cruel as to end a life.

With that in mind, she said to the doctor in a tough tone, "Doctor, I want to keep this baby so please try your best to help me while I carry this life within me..."

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