Madeline parted her pretty pale lips and smiled slightly. "As long as it's a child with Jeremy, I don’t mind having a boy or a girl.”

Eloise was initially very happy, but when she heard her answer, her eyes got wet again.

She squeezed Madeline's hand and said, "Back then, you held this same belief and risked your life to give birth to his child too, didn’t you?"

Madeline smiled without denying it.

Back then…

Back then, she loved Jeremy so badly that she would not mind if it meant dying for him.

She did not think there was anything different now too.

She still loved him a lot.

"It's a boy," Eloise told her as she teared up and laughed. "An ugly boy.”

Madeline smiled as well. "When he grows up, he’ll be handsome. I bet Jack was ugly when he was born too,” she said , suddenly turning silent.

She had never seen how Jackson looked like when he was born…

Madeline spent more than half a month in the hospital to recuperate from her injuries and for her postpartum confinement.

Altho