Chapter 257 Impossible To Hide
Regardless, Michael had revealed that Ronan was the founder of the hospital. That was a pretty shocking piece of information as I had always thought that Ronan was only a good-for-nothing living off his family’s riches.
“I didn’t know Anna would come here for a physical examination. If I knew earlier, I would most definitely spare her from paying,” Ronan responded while curling his lips into a faint smile.
His tone was casual as usual, but I could feel an indecipherable emotion in his eyes while he was looking at me.
Regarding the floor I was on when I took the elevator earlier, Michael might not know I was on the obstetrics and gynecology department floor, but Ronan must have known.
“So, you’re the founder of this hospital. That’s quite a surprise.” I spoke to Ronan with an awkward tone after giving him a polite smile.
“I must’ve forgotten to tell you about that before.” In contrast to his previous witty personality, Ronan was being very courteous toward me at present. Even though it was a good thing that he had stopped pursuing me after knowing about my pregnancy, I still felt pretty uneasy by his indifferent attitude toward me.
Since I had always treated him as my close friend, becoming strangers because of my pregnancy was the last thing I wished to happen. However, it seemed like that was out of my control.
Once we finally reached the first floor, I strode out of the elevator without delay. Being with Michael and Ronan in the elevator was not only stressful but suffocating.
Before I was about to leave, I heard a female voice coming from behind. “Michael! You’re finally done! I’ve been waiting for so long.”
The second I heard Michael’s name mentioned, I could not help but stop in my tracks while my heart skipped a beat. I then turned around and witnessed Emma throwing herself into Michael’s arm. There was also a sense of coquettishness in her tone while she was speaking.
In response, Michael did not push Emma away and allowed her to embrace him. Despite having an emotionless expression, there was no trace of disgust on his face.
Not too long ago, I had told Michael that I surmised that Emma was the instigator of the intrusion in my house. Judging from the current situation, it seemed to me that he did not take that matter to heart at all.
I wondered if Michael’s feelings for Emma had changed during that period. After all, she was the woman he had to spend the rest of his life with soon. Conversely, I was only a nobody.
“Nice to meet you, Ms. Jones. Or should I call you Mrs. Shaw? Anyway, I see that you can’t even separate from Michael for a moment now, huh? Weren’t you with him just a short while ago?” Ronan could not hold himself back from joking with Emma. He even had a smile on his face when he saw them embracing.
It was apparent that Emma was in a joyous mood upon hearing Ronan calling her Mrs. Shaw from the bright smile on her face. There was a hint of shyness in her expression too.
Sure enough, I felt like a dagger had pierced through my heart the second I heard Emma being called Mrs. Shaw. My eyes began to well up in tears uncontrollably when I saw how in sync they looked, painting a picture of a happy family.
“It’s too early to call me that. Since there’s still a couple of days before our wedding, addressing me as Mrs. Shaw is a little inappropriate.” Although she gave such a reply to Ronan, Emma was gazing at Michael with a blissful expression.
“Why not? You’ll marry Michael eventually anyway,” the straightforward Ronan uttered again right after Emma finished her words.
Upon hearing Ronan’s utterance, Emma hung her head for a while before staring at Michael solemnly. “I hope you’ll love me with all your heart and soul instead of loving others once we’re married. Can you do that, Michael?”
A mixture of anticipation and tenderness was in her tone as she spoke.
When he heard her speaking such unexpected words, Michael furrowed his brows and looked at her with a tinge of annoyance.
I understood the overtone in Emma’s words—she was still brooding over the press conference Michael held earlier. Nonetheless, I thought it was understandable since no woman would tolerate the man she loved to have feelings for another woman.
In the meantime, it seemed like Emma had not noticed me, despite the fact that I was only standing not too far away from them. The reason was perhaps that she only had her eyes on Michael alone.
Given that Michael had a chilling expression and did not answer Emma, Ronan felt the awkwardness in the air and tried to ease the tension. “What are you even saying? You’re about to be Michael’s wife! Of course, you’ll be the only person he loves unquestionably! Why would he love anyone else?”
“I assume you’re unaware of what happened since you were abroad a few days ago. Michael confessed to a woman named Anna—”
“Enough!” Michael cut Emma off before she could reveal the matter between him and myself.
Ascertaining from his terrifying countenance, it was apparent that Michael did not like Emma mentioning us in front of others. Furthermore, he had always hated gossipers.
Still, the ever-intelligent Ronan discovered something in Emma’s words despite being interjected by Michael. He was bewildered after hearing my name and gazed toward me with a much more complicated expression than before.
After staring intently at me for a while, he shifted his gaze toward my belly.
I perceived that he must be starting to speculate something in his mind. He looked like a person who loved to fool around on the surface, but he was pretty quick-witted in reality. Others did not have to say anything more at times, as he could perform accurate guesswork by himself.
Consequent to Ronan’s gaze, I lowered my head in guilt and turned around, intending to leave. To my dismay, Emma’s voice sounded before I could walk away. “Anna? What are you doing here?”
She probably noticed me when she saw Ronan looking in my direction. On the heels of glancing at me with widened eyes, she looked at Michael like she was suspecting something.
Based on her pettiness, she must have thought it was not a coincidence that Michael and I appeared at the hospital concurrently. She probably concluded that I was there to pester Michael deliberately.
My first intuition was to ignore her and leave at once, but I refrained from doing so because Michael and Ronan were present. In addition to that, I believed Emma probably would not go too far with Michael by her side since she had to maintain the image he had for her.
Hence, I turned around and stared at Emma emotionlessly while remaining silent.
“It is you. Why are you here? Are you here to see Michael?” As expected, Emma thought I was there to pester Michael.
Since Emma mentioned something about Michael and me earlier to Ronan in front of Michael, I knew Ronan would possibly validate what I had told him before; that the man I was in love with was Michael.
