Chapter 398
Harvey knitted his brows together tightly. “Beau is your son How can you be so cold–blooded that you won’t even hold him?”
Elara retorted, “Do you still remember how you responded when I told you that Beau didn’t want to be close to me?”
Harvey froze in place. There was a hint of confusion in his eyes.
A cold, faint chuckle escaped Elara’s throat. It seemed he had long forgotten. The ever–busy president of Fisher Corp had never truly regarded his own family as something that mattered.
“You said that a son shouldn’t rely on his mother, especially since Beau is the heir of Fisher Corp. Instead, I should restrain my emotions and make myself his teacher, pot his mother!
“I once told you that Ethel always spoke ill of me in front of our sot. You said it was the truth, so it wasn’t bad mouthing. You said your mother wasn’t wrong, that I was just a country girl with knowledge.
“You also said I was extremely lucky to have married into the Fisher family. Otherwise, even if your family had to hire a nanny, they would never hire someone from my kind of background!”
It felt as if a thousand needles had pierced Harvey’s heart, reaking his chest tighten unbearably. This painful emotion surged over him in constant waves, knocking him off balance.
He wanted to explain, but when he opened his mouth, he realized that words were futile.
In the end, Harvey could only spit out, “Beau is just a child..”
Elara’s face remained composed.
“Then please fulfill your duty as a father and properly educate your child!”
Harvey pressed his lips together. A dull, indescribable ache spread through his heart. It was as if someone had taken a stun baton and sent small electric currents through his chest, making his entire body ache unbearably. However, he was also drowning in the feeling Elara had stirred within him.
“Harvey treated you like that in the past? Why didn’t you tell me?” asked Lesley as she grabbed Elara’s sleeve, huffing through her nose.
“How could …
only tell me the good and not the bad?”
Elara shot back, “Weren’t you the same? You barely contacted me when you were overseas!”
Upon mentioning that, her voice sounded aggrieved. She continued, “I even thought you didn’t want me anymore!
Lesley quickly opened her arms and pulled Elara into a hug
“Ever since you got married, I felt like I wasn’t important to you anymore. Oh, Elara, why did you waste seven years on him?‘
With that, she rested her chin on Elara’s shoulder. Pursing her lips, a sour taste appeared in her mouth. During this entire period, she had never inquired about Elara’s marriage.
Since Elara was now divorced, they should look forward, not back. However, Lesley realized that by not asking, she was essentially ignoring what had happened during Elara’s marriage.
Lesley gently rubbed her soft, delicate check against Elara’s. The auditorium was vast, yet she found warmth in
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Lesley’s embrace.
Elará replied, “I might have inherited a bad habit from my parents. Whenever I find a piece of clothing with a tear or a hole, my first instinct isn’t to throw it away. Instead, 1 patch it up. I thought that once mended, the clothing could still be worn.”
She continued, “However, I never expected that as people grow, clothes that once fit would gradually become ill fitting.”
Lesley continued hugging Elara. She then suddenly turned her head, glaring at Harvey with open hostility.
Harvey stood stiffly in place, holding Beau in his arms.
Just then, a parent sitting in the back row spoke softly, “Mr Fisher, could you please move aside? My daughter is performing.”
Harvey’s face was frozen in place. Holding Beau, he stepped aside and moved to the back row,
He exchanged a few words with a parent sitting behind Elara, and that parent got up and moved to another seat. Carrying Beau, he then sat behind Elara.
“Daddy…” Beau’s weak voice broke the silence as if he wanted to say something more.
Harvey’s voice was cold as he snapped, “Shut up!!
