She asked very bluntly, without even the slightest pause. However, Kylie's hands were tightly clasped
together and her nerves were tense.
She knew that the answer she wanted would probably bring her to her doom, but she was so stubborn
to ask.
Joseph looked at Kylie and saw how strong she was pretending to be but how fragile she looked like a
lily in the rain, and his heart suddenly ached.
He subconsciously answered her directly.
"No, I didn't have sex with her, or even with any woman."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kylie's tense nerves went slack. She couldn't stand up and fell
straight backward.
Joseph quickly held her up and looked at Kylie with concern.
She was too nervous!
In fact, how could Joseph not be nervous?
His palms were also sweating.
Kylie collapsed into a warm embrace and was still in a trance, but she couldn't care so much. She
grabbed Joseph's hand straight away and asked nervously, "You didn't have sex with any woman, so
the child in Mia's belly isn't yours, is it?"
"Yes."
Joseph met Kylie's anxious eyes and somehow blurted out the truth.
Kylie's tense heart finally loosened up a bit, but she asked with confusion, "If it's not your child, why did
you marry her? You know very well that I like you and that I want to marry you!"
Joseph was dumbfounded by Kylie's words.
What did she mean she liked him?
Did she want to marry him?
Why didn't he know anything about it before?
His brilliant brain seemed to have suddenly shut down. Joseph just stared blankly at Kylie, and the last
words of Kylie echoed in his head over and over again.
When Kylie saw Joseph like this, she couldn't help but cry out.
"Joseph, you're a fool!"
She pushed Joseph away and turned to run.
"Kylie!"
Joseph tried to go after her but found that his legs were so heavy that he couldn't lift them up.
And Kylie suddenly felt depressed after running away for some distance.
What was she running for?
What had she come to do?
Kylie suddenly stopped, turned around, ran up to Joseph again, tugged at his collar on tiptoe, and
asked angrily, "Are you still marrying her?"
"Yes!"
Joseph subconsciously replied, but that answer infuriated Kylie.
She gritted her teeth and said in a rage, "No! You are mine! You can only marry me!"
Seeing Kylie's domineering look, Joseph suddenly felt his heart warming.
He petted Kylie's head dotingly and said, "I have a reason that I must marry her."
Kylie suddenly looked like a deflated ball, and her radiant eyes instantly dulled, as if the whole world
had lost its color.
Joseph suddenly felt his heart ache terribly.
He took Kylie's hand in his and said in a low voice, "The child Mia was carrying was my friend's, but a
few days ago, my friend died in an archaeological accident. He was the only son of his family. His
parents were overwhelmed by the news. His mother had a heart attack and was not rescued, and his
father had a stroke and is still in intensive care. If Mia hadn't been pregnant, it would have been fine,
but the child in her belly is probably the only bloodline of my friend's family, so ..."
Kylie instantly understood.
"So you're planning to give the child a proper identity and let Mia give birth to the child to leave your
friend an offspring?"
"Yes."
Joseph nodded.
Kylie suddenly didn't know whether she should be angry or happy.
She was happy that Joseph and Mia had no feelings for each other, and angry that this man was
actually planning to sacrifice his whole life for his friend.
When Mia saw the benefits, she was like a mosquito seeing blood. She would never let go until she
had all the benefits of that man, not to mention that she had a posthumous child in her belly.
If Joseph really married Mia, they probably wouldn't even get divorced smoothly in the future.
Thinking of this, Kylie became more and more depressed.
"Even if it's to give the child an identity, you don't have to marry Mia. You could have married me. Then
when she gives birth, we adopt the child, okay? Besides, Mia was just a slut, and it's not certain
whether the child in her belly is your friend's or not. Even if it is, now that your friend is dead, the child
is of little use to Mia. Do you think she'll give birth to the baby?"
"It's not up to her not to have it. I've put her under house arrest, and she's not going to leave the house
until the puncture test is done."
Joseph's attitude towards Mia was very bad.
Kylie suddenly thought of the private villa that she had followed Joseph to not long ago.
So Mia was now under house arrest there by Joseph?
"Then you can't marry her either! I just won't let you marry her!"
Kylie knew she was being unreasonable, but she just couldn't stand the idea of the man she liked
marrying Mia.
Joseph could marry any woman, but not Mia.
Watching the girl in front of him acting cheekily, Joseph couldn't help but think of their childhood and
wanted to laugh.
"Do you hear me? You're not allowed to marry her!"
"I'll think about it."
Joseph did not reject her outright, which was a little unexpected for Kylie but also a little surprising.
"Fine, I'll give you one night to think about it. Tell me the answer tomorrow. Joseph, you can dislike me,
you can like other girls, but you can't marry Mia! You can't!"
Kylie's eyes contained so much emotion that for a moment it made Joseph a little distraught.
He nodded in agreement with the compromise.
Only then was Kylie happy.
Suddenly, Kylie's stomach rumbled. The rumbling sound made Kylie slightly embarrassed and blush.
"You haven't eaten lunch?"
Joseph raised his hand and looked at the time. It was already past two in the afternoon. He couldn't
help but frown.
Kylie was a little embarrassed and said, "I was busy and forgot about it."
"Come on, let's go eat."
With that, Joseph took Kylie's hand and got into the car.
Kylie suddenly felt like she was stepping on cotton, and she was so happy that she was in a trance.
Joseph had taken the initiative to hold her hand!
She watched as Joseph dragged her into the car like a fangirl, helped her put on her seatbelt, then
started the car, stepped on the accelerator, and drove straight on.
Joseph was so handsome!
In fact, she felt that Joseph was the kind of handsome man who had no flaws.
Kylie propped her chin up with one hand and looked at Joseph eagerly, causing Joseph to blush.
"What do you want to eat?"
Kylie almost said that she wanted to eat him, but reason eventually won out over nymphomania. She
whispered, "Any kind of food is okay."
As the two of them were talking, a man suddenly appeared in front of Joseph's car, scaring Joseph into
slamming on the brakes. The sharp, harsh sound of tires scraping against the ground reached
everyone's ears at once.
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