Chapter 45 - For Her Own Sake

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It didn’t matter who it was or what that person had done for her. Sophia would treat anyone who tried to persuade her to abort her child as an enemy.

She would never show mercy to her enemies.

Sophia looked sharply into Sebastian’s eyes, refusing to give in at all.

Seeing her stance, Sebastian felt a familiar sting in his heart again. His face was cold, and in the end, he spat, “Whatever.”

Sebastian, who was usually arrogant, was less imposing than another person for the first time, and that person was a pregnant woman sitting on a hospital bed.

No matter how reasonable he sounded, he could not cover up that he had crossed the line. From the moment he started lecturing Sophia, he had already lost.

He lost because he had meddled in other people’s business.

Anita finished looking for toothpicks, inserted one into every apple, and happily returned to the ward. However, when she noticed the tense atmosphere in the ward, she

was shocked.

She asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong with you two?”

She had only gone out for a short while. What had happened now? Why did these two look like they were in a catfight?

Although her brother, Sebastian, usually looked cold and arrogant and was not easy to get along with, he was rarely angry. He was usually the one to upset others, but if

someone were to do the same to him, they would be in trouble.

Being angry? It was a rarity to see her second brother, who was usually obsessed with his work, be consumed by his emotions like this.

Sophia was not a person who liked to upset others either. At least, to Anita, Sophia was never one to start a dispute with others. She was polite to everyone; even if others

did upset her, she was very calm most of the time.

But recently, she had lost her temper a few times because of Norman.

Anita looked at Sophia and then looked at Sebastian.

None of them answered her.

Considering that Sophia was a pregnant woman who needed to be handled with care, Anita decided to risk it and provoke Sebastian instead. “Seb, did you make Sophia

upset? She is pregnant!”

Sebastian glanced at Anita coldly and left the ward under her burning gaze.

Seeing her brother leave, Anita felt a little scared but relieved.

She handed the plate of cut apples to Sophia and asked curiously, “Did you two argue?”

Sophia rubbed the space between her eyebrows, not wanting to talk about it. She answered, “Just a small disagreement.”

Anita didn’t ask what they were arguing about. Although she didn’t know what her brother was upset about, what else could Sophia be angry about besides the child?

Sebastian must have tried to persuade Sophia to give up the child.

However, Sophia’s anger was directed at Sebastian, which Anita found interesting.

Anita didn’t think that her brother would care about whether other people wanted to keep a child.

Sophia looked out of the window. Although she felt relaxed upon Sebastian’s departure, she still could not shake that off her mind.

He was not unreasonable. If someone else had spoken to her, she might not have been so determined to push the idea away.

Having a child would indeed be very troublesome.

Especially when the child’s father would not be responsible, the responsibility would be so heavy that it might crush her.

But the decision to abort the child was also too heavy for her to bear.

Was it true what Sebastian had said, that she had become a mother who the child had guilt-tripped?

Was she not the same person anymore?

Would she not be Sophia anymore if she decided to keep the child?

Would she still be Sophia if she decided to abort it?

Was the definition of how she could become herself solely based on this choice?

Sophia frowned and suddenly said, “I don’t think he’s right.”

It was as if she was talking to herself. She didn’t wait for Anita, who was rendered speechless, to ask her before she continued, “I am Sophia. No matter what I decide to do, I

will always be Sophia. It’s just a different title. If | choose to keep the child, I am just Sophia who wants to be a mother. If 1 decide not to keep the child, | am Sophia, who

doesn’t want to be a mother.

“Why does he think that I am guilt-tripped by the child if I were to keep it?

“From a rational point of view, the world, including his mother, is meaningless to a child who has yet to take shape. It has no emotions, no thoughts. It comes and goes

whenever it wants. It doesn’t know what kind of world this is yet, so naturally, he won’t miss it.

“It doesn’t need me. But, I need it a lot.

“I want to be a mother, so I am forcing him to be my child.”

Anita was stunned. Even though she didn’t hear what Sebastian said to Sophia, she could guess it.

Sophia was probably refuting Sebastian.

Anita didn’t know how her brother would react when he heard it, but for now, she was stunned.

This was the first time she heard someone wanting to keep a child for their own sake.

It wasn’t for the child, nor was it for a man. It was for herself who had sacrificed the most for the child.

Most importantly, Sophia believed it made sense..