Love's Antidote

"Ms. Stone, think of something! Mr. Byrd is about to faint!"I could hear Maria, the housekeeper, pacing up and down anxiously. I broke out into a cold sweat almost at once. The pain I felt after having been knocked by the car still hadn't dissipated, and I was slumped on the ground. I could not get rid of the image of my children's bloodied faces after they were run over. The sudden sound of Maria's voice had made me feel as if ages had passed. In my previous life, Maria had been dismissed after I got married. I hadn't seen her again after that. "Mr. Byrd had quite a lot to drink at the banquet today. Will you go in and take a look at him?"I stepped backward. Had I come back to life? "Maria, tell the driver to go and pick Jane Yates up. Ashton was drugged."I suppressed my emotions with difficulty and looked at Maria, who was beside me. Maria paused and looked rather confused."Maria, hurry!" I retreated far away from Ashton's bedroom door. "If we delay any longer, he'll

After it was over, Craig got up and packed his things to head to his subsidiary company office. Before he left, he leaned down and said softly in my ear, "Wait for me. I'll come back and take responsibility for this."I did not ask him how he would do that. When he found out that I was pregnant with his child, he would be sure to marry me. It had only been a couple of days, but I found it surprisingly hard to pass the time.Many of the housekeepers had heard what I'd said to Jane that day. They thought I had seduced Ashton.However, Ashton had held a meeting with them and told them that Jane was the only one who could be his future wife. He told them that they had to treat Jane as if she were him."Hey, do you know what's going on with Ms. Stone?""Didn't they say that she's with that security guard? How could she do that sort of thing during work hours instead of behaving herself, especially when she's a steward?""Exactly! And yet she's a so-called top student! I think she's ev

Ashton paused, and his arm lowered slowly. He turned abruptly."Dad, Blair pushed Jane down the stairs! I'm teaching her a lesson!"I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Craig. I ignored the pain on my face, and my lips twitched. "I never did such a thing!""If it wasn't you, who did it? Don't try to lie to me! Dad, someone with a bad character isn't worthy of being our steward!"I looked coldly at him. "You're shameless, Ashton! Whether or not I did such a thing, you can find out just by investigating."What gives you the right to cut my face? You hurt me without even investigating! You're breaking the law!"Jane looked at Craig with tears in her eyes as he walked toward us. "Mr. Byrd, Ms. Stone didn't do it on purpose. It's all my fault!"Craig kicked Ashton about six feet away. The anger on his face was clear for all to see. "Are you sure you want to be someone who isn't able to tell between right and wrong?"He turned to look at my bleeding face. Then, he crouched

Ashton's friends were giving him strange looks and their gazes were traveling downward to the lower half of his body.While all of that was happening, I was having a candlelit dinner with Craig. I gave him an ultrasound. "Honey, I went to get a check-up today."I smiled as I looked at him. The ultrasound showed clearly that I had twins.Craig was stunned, and he did not recover for a long time. "Is this real? Are you pregnant? They're my children?"Craig beamed and immediately celebrated on social media the news that he was going to be a father. I watched Ashton come in, and he turned an angry gaze on us.I walked toward him, smiling. "Ashton, you're back. Come and celebrate. Our family will soon be growing!"He stared fixedly at my stomach. "Blair!"Before I could speak, Craig spoke up. "Don't call her by her name! Blair is now your mother!"Ashton's expression darkened even more. He looked as if he would swallow me whole. Conversely, I was delighted to see how upset he was.

Time went by very quickly, and my stomach grew bigger and bigger. In the later stages of my pregnancy, Craig did many things himself instead of handing them over to someone else. He would go out for a stroll with me every day and prepare surprises for me. "Blair, this is a necklace for you. How does it look?"Craig reached out and took out the biggest pearl necklace in Esica, which he had bought at an auction. I looked at it and pretended to look glum. "Are those pearls?"Craig's hand tightened on the necklace, and he stuffed it into his pocket. "What do you like? I'll get them to send it over for you at the next auction."He combed my hair carefully, afraid that he would hurt me. I was about to answer when I suddenly received a new WhatsApp message.It was a message from Ashton again: "Blair, how are you?"I turned off my phone and tossed it aside. Ashton would send a few messages every few days to harass me and tell me what he was doing. He always felt that the things he could