He Told Me to Disappear, So I Did のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 31 - チャプター 40

Even so, Quentin had begun to hope his mother would find someone to look after her. He kept bringing up the neighbor who cooked so well and the teacher at school with the “really, really nice” voice.Lauren closed her eyes.Soon, all she could picture was Jensen standing in the rain.She did not know when she fell asleep.Over the next few days, she and Quentin ran into Jensen wherever they went.He always kept a little distance.Lauren refused to look at him, but Quentin’s eyes kept drifting his way.Day after day, Jensen appeared outside their building.Anyone who knew Quentin could see at a glance that this man had some connection to them.Even their landlady brought him up when she came to collect the rent.“Did he cheat on you?” she asked.Before Lauren could answer, the landlady added, “A man that handsome is bound to cause trouble.”Lauren had arrived alone and pregnant. After Quentin was born, she raised him by herself. At first, she had not even known how to hold a baby, an

Jensen did not appear again that afternoon.Quentin kept looking outside. At last, he could not hold back and ran to Lauren. “Did that really handsome man... leave?”Lauren did not know what to say. “Yes.”The light went out of Quentin’s eyes.He sniffled, close to tears, but held them in. Then he ran to the bathroom and turned on the tap. As he washed his face, he said, “I thought it was weird that he kept coming here too...“If you don’t like him, Mommy, I don’t like him either...”A while later, Quentin dried his face and came out. His eyes were red, but he pretended nothing was wrong.“There’s a school meeting next week. Could you and Wes go together? The teacher said everyone’s mom and dad should come.”Lauren crouched until she was at eye level with him.“Just this once,” Quentin pleaded. “Could we ask Wes to help just this once?”Lauren did not know how to answer.Quentin was more thoughtful than most children his age, especially when it came to looking after her.But he was

Jensen smiled. “I told you. I want to make it up to you and our son.”“We don’t need that!” Lauren kept pace with Quentin a short distance ahead and spoke through clenched teeth. “Mr. Shaw, you show up wherever we go. You’ve already disrupted our lives. This compensation you’ve decided to give us is nothing but a burden!”She had wanted to say it for a long time.Quentin never said so outright, but he desperately wanted a father.For such a young boy, he worried about far too much. He often compared every man Lauren knew, from one neighbor to another. He put so much effort into finding her a partner.Since Jensen appeared, Quentin had stopped mentioning anyone else.All his efforts went into finding ways to talk about the handsome man next door.The bond between father and son seemed to have formed on its own.Lauren could only watch Jensen unsettle the life she built, unable to do anything about it.She hated the feeling.Jensen stepped closer and bent toward her. “Is having me he

By the time Jensen returned to the apartment building, it was dark.He knocked on Lauren’s door for a long time, but no one answered.She did not pick up his calls either. When he contacted the landlady, she told him, “Miss Sullivan ended her lease early.”Jensen panicked.Lauren was gone.Just as she had done before, she disappeared from his life without hesitation.He called on everyone he knew to find her. Finding information overseas took far longer than it would have in Cloudhaven.It was late at night before he heard anything.His assistant finished a call and approached Jensen, who had been sitting outside Lauren’s door the whole time. “Mr. Shaw, we found her. Mrs. Shaw took your son back to Cloudhaven.”“Cloudhaven?”Jensen’s voice was hoarse. Then he gave a sudden smile. “She’s still willing to go back there. That’s good.”His assistant asked cautiously, “If she’s returned to Cloudhaven, there may be questions about her shares in the group...”“I hope she comes to claim th

“Jensen, let go!” His grip made Lauren’s wrist ache. She frowned. “Let me go!”“No!” Jensen was furious. “It took me so long to find you...”His eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was hoarse. “You said you loved me. You said you wanted to spend your life with me! You made me what I am, Lauren. Now you think you can say the past doesn’t matter, leave me, and marry another man? I won’t let you!”Jensen had not slept in two days. He searched everywhere before finally finding her.And here she was, looking at wedding dresses with another man. Was she going to marry him?Lauren wrenched her wrist free and slapped Jensen.The sharp sound rang through the quiet boutique.“Jensen, are you finished?” she asked coldly.When they first met again, she thought they might be able to stay civil. They had loved and hated each other; perhaps they could at least part on decent terms.She no longer believed that.Jensen stared at her with red eyes and said nothing.He had once been known in Cloudhav