Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife

Chapter 197 Not Deeply In Love Yet

Yvonne's eyes were a little red and her hand trembled with the phone in her grip. "If...if he really loves me, why would he hurt me so much?"

Shane was rendered a little speechless by her question. It took him a while to find his voice again," Because even he himself did not realize that he is in love with you, so..."

"I don’t want to hear that!" Yvonne’s voice choked with emotions. “Even if he doesn’t love me, he shouldn't have treated me this way! He shouldn't have sacrificed me and the child in my womb to save his first love! I will never forgive him!"

The sacrifice of her child was a sorrow that would forever shackle her.

Even if Henry wasn't the direct cause of the child’s death, Dominic had done all those horrible things to her and her unborn baby because he was aware of the significance of the Conrads and Jacqueline in Henry's eyes.

So even if Henry wasn’t the murderer, he was one of the culprits. And she would never forgive him for that!

Shane also knew how much pain losing the child had brought to Yvonne. He could understand why she would blame Henry for it. Even so, he still hoped that she would move on from that incident.

He sighed then tried to talk some sense into her, "I can understand why you won't forgive Henry. But Yvonne, are you sure you really want to allow this to affect you for the rest of your life?"

"What are you trying to say?" Yvonne's voice turned cold as she wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes with the back of her hand.

The expression on Shane's face softened. "I’m telling you to move on. If you keep dwelling on it..."

"So you want me to forgive Henry? Or are you trying to make me forgive the Conrads?" Yvonne interrupted him angrily.

Shane held his forehead. "Yvonne, you have misunderstood me. I'm not asking you to forgive Henry or let go of your hatred. I’m only exhorting you t o let go of what you should let go of, so that you won’t regret anything in the future."

"What would I regret?" Yvonne questioned back at him.

Shane looked in the direction of the ward. "Henry, of course. I just told you that the person he loves is you. I also said plenty to sober him up. By the time he realizes his feelings for you, he will surely come to you. Won’t you go back with him then?"

"I won't. Putting aside whether he is genuinely in love with me, why would I go back with him after telling him that I'm going to divorce him?" Yvonne said stubbornly.

Shane raised his eyebrow slightly. "But can you bear t o do that? You love Henry. Are you sure you can bring yourself to cut off all ties with him?"

Yvonne was choked into silence.

Of course she couldn't bear to do that, but she just couldn’t let go of things.

Letting go meant she forgave him for his actions of sheltering the Conrads and his indifference toward their child.

So she definitely couldn’t get back with him, no matter how unbearable it was for her. She had no rights to forgive this father on her child’s behalf!

Thinking up to this point, Yvonne quickly readjusted her expression and grew determined. "Shane, I'm really confused. You were the person who suggested that I leave Henry and even supported our

divorce. Why are you going against your own words now and seem to be hoping that Henry and I would get back together?"

Shane felt a pang of hurt when she asked the question, but he feigned indifference. "Because I want you to be happy. I only initially supported your divorce because I couldn't stand watching your unrequited love for him despite the bad treatment he gave you. But now that I found out that he loves you and you're both in love with each other, I wish for both of you to stay together and not miss out on each other "But do you still think that we can continue this marriage after so many things have happened between us?" Yvonne asked.

Shane fell silent for a few seconds. "I know, but..."

"No buts," Yvonne interrupted him again. "Is he really i n love with me just because you said so? Then do you know when he fell in love with me? I fell in love with him back then and yes, it was love at first sight. But what about him? He hated me for three years and gave me the cold shoulder. In the past three years, I've only met him twice..."

Her voice trembled a little when she said all that.

After a slight pause, she continued, "One was when we met for the very first time and the other was when we got married. Then he never came to see me again for the next three years. If I want to know anything about him, I can only flip through various financial newspapers or magazines!"

"Yvonne..." Shane's heart ached for her.

Yvonne sniffed and smiled tearfully, "So Shane, tell m e. How did Henry, who had barely met or spoke to me, fall in love with me? Was it also love at first sight?"

Shane was silenced.

Truth be told, he was also puzzled by the fact that Henry would fall in love with Yvonne.

He fell in love with her because she was different from what he imagined. He had seen too many scheming women in his social circle. She was the first person who could join their social circle and still manage to retain her purity. So the more he got to know Yvonne, the deeper he plunged.

But Henry was different. To Henry, Jacqueline was the purest of them all. So his reason for falling in love with Yvonne was definitely different from him. But not even Shane knew the real reason.

"You can’t answer that, right?" Yvonne broke the silence after Shane couldn't find an answer for a long time.

Shane sighed, "I'm sorry Yvonne, I..."

"You don’t have to apologize. I just couldn’t believe your statement about Henry being in love with me, that's all. Even if what you said is true, I don’t have the courage to accept him."

"Why?" Shane was puzzled. "Isn't this what you always yearned for?”

"Yes, but is this really love? If he loves me, shouldn't h e stay away from Jacqueline? Shouldn't he protect our child?"

Yvonne gripped the front of her blouse tightly and continued sorrowfully, "Yet he has done none of them. He schemed against me to get my bone marrow for Jacqueline. He knew of the things that Dominic had done to me, yet he chose to defend him instead of avenging our child. So tell me Shane, does he love m e?"

If it wasn't for the fact that she knew for sure that there was no grudge between Henry and her, she would have been convinced that Henry was taking revenge on her.

After hearing Yvonne's heartfelt words, humiliation suddenly welled up in Shane’s heart. "I guess I was being a simpleton and took things too lightly. Just because the both of you are in love with each

other, I thought you two should let go of things and reconcile. But after listening to you, I realized how naive I was. I'm sorry Yvonne..."

She was right. What Henry did to her wasn't what a lover would have done to his significant other.

However, the fact that Henry loved her remained a fact.

It was evident that his love for her wasn't pure. It had many complex emotions mixed in it. To put it bluntly, he didn't love her deeply enough yet. If he was deeply i n love, how could he fail to notice his feelings for the other person? NôvelDrama.Org content rights.

"It's alright," Yvonne shook her head gently. "I know you just want the best for me. But the situation between Henry and me is too complicated. Perhaps divorcing is the best outcome. Not to mention, there is still a third person between us. If Henry and I restart this marriage, wouldn't Jacqueline come to destroy u s?" i "You are right." Shane nodded with a wry smile.

Yvonne looked up at the blue sky and took a deep breath. "I think you are very well aware of the fact that I am not suitable to marry into a rich household. Even i f I stay with Henry, I will only hinder him."

"Who said that? What if I tell you that you are the rich one?" Shane suddenly spoke up.

Yvonne felt a strange tug at her heart and asked skeptically, "What do you mean by this?"