Chapter 279: Chapter 279: You’re Just a Substitute
Leon Keane denied, "I didn’t argue with your mommy."
He was just worried that Ivana Monroe, being angry, would take Timmy to catch a taxi, and might encounter some danger on the way. When people are angry, they often lose their calm and ability to think.
Leon Keane denied in his heart that because of Ivana Monroe’s attitude, he himself lost his calm and ability to think first.
"That’s best! I hope daddy and mommy can be happy and loving every day. I believe Ian feels the same as me, hoping you both are well, so we can have both daddy and mommy at the same time."
Timmy Monroe’s handsome little face was smiling cutely, and what seemed like an ordinary sentence was actually hinting to Leon Keane that now his mother already dislikes him and mommy a lot. If he continues to argue with mommy and doesn’t understand her, he would lose daddy, and Ian would lose mommy.
A six-year-old child should be in the most innocent and lively stage; he shouldn’t understand so much.
However, Timmy Monroe has lived with Ivana Monroe for six years and hasn’t experienced the feeling of having a father. Since meeting Leon Keane, he has experienced fatherly love, but in Timmy Monroe’s eyes, this love is so unreliable, making him worry about losing it.
His worry will also become Ian’s worry.
A complex emotion flashed in Leon Keane’s eyes. Seeing the look in Timmy’s eyes yearning for him and Ivana Monroe to be happy, Leon Keane suddenly felt he owed this child too much.
Leon Keane pulled Timmy Monroe into his arms and said hoarsely, "We will. Mommy and I will be loving forever, giving you and Ian a warm home."
Timmy Monroe, suddenly embraced by Leon Keane, felt the warmth of his father’s body and nestled greedily in his arms, "Daddy, that’s what you said! Let’s make a pinky promise."
Timmy Monroe childishly extended his little pinky.
Leon Keane, seeing this, smiled and lifted his pinky, and the big and small fingers of father and son hooked together.
Timmy Monroe: "Pinky promise for a hundred years, don’t change. Whoever changes is a little dog."
Ivana Monroe stood in the corridor outside the restroom, waited for about twenty minutes without seeing Leon Keane and Timmy come out. She was a bit anxious, a bit uncertain whether Leon Keane took Timmy into this men’s restroom.
After all, this is a hospital with several restrooms on each floor.
If it were usual, with Leon Keane taking Timmy, Ivana Monroe wouldn’t mind it. But the situation is different now; Ivana doesn’t want Timmy to appear in front of Leon Keane’s mother again.
Ivana Monroe picked up her phone and dialed Leon Keane’s number.
After connecting.
Leon Keane told Ivana Monroe that he and Timmy were in the men’s restroom on the second floor; Timmy wasn’t ready yet and needed to wait awhile.
Ivana Monroe said she would go to the second floor to find him.
Leon Keane laughed, "Do you have the courage to enter the men’s restroom? If so, I don’t mind."
Ivana Monroe: "..."
Leon Keane didn’t hear Ivana Monroe’s voice, knowing she was embarrassed, he laughed and said, "Derrick Stern has already arrived at the hospital, right at the entrance registration area, you should get in the car with Derrick Stern first. After Timmy is ready, I’ll hand him over to you."
At that moment.
Ivana Monroe had already found the stairs to the second floor and was running up them. Hearing Leon Keane’s words, her fair face flushed, silently cursing Leon Keane for being deliberate.
Leon Keane had said it in such a way; what could Ivana Monroe say?
She could only say "okay."
Hanging up the phone, Ivana Monroe stopped, ready to go downstairs.
"Wait a minute." A woman’s voice suddenly said.
Ivana Monroe looked around the stairs, where nobody else seemed to be present, likely the hospital employees’ stairs adjacent to the first-floor restroom. She had heard Leon Keane say on the phone about being on the second floor, saw the green passage beside the restroom, and came up directly without looking for the elevator.
This voice seemed to be calling her.
Ivana Monroe turned around and glanced up the stairs.
She saw a female doctor in a white coat, with straight hair, walking down.
The female doctor’s appearance seemed familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere.
"Were you calling me? Is there something?" Ivana Monroe asked.
Julia Sinclair’s expression stiffened; her heart almost went wild. This woman is really good at pretending, clearly just met, now pretending not to know her.
Quite something!
Julia Sinclair suppressed the anger in her heart and smiled as she walked to Ivana Monroe’s side, "I have a few words to talk to you about, just ten minutes of your time."
Ivana Monroe frowned; she didn’t know this woman, "I’m not a doctor. There’s nothing for us to talk about, right?"
The smile on Julia Sinclair’s face cracked for a moment, like a classic movie line: I consider you a rival and wish to personally kill you, but you ask who I am?
Julia Sinclair sneered in her heart, does this woman think she’s unworthy to be a rival, so she’s completely ignoring her?
"You’re half right; I’m not here to talk about professional matters but personal feelings."
Personal feelings?
Ivana Monroe looked at Julia Sinclair as if she were a monster.
This woman must be sick?
"Sorry, I’m not interested in women." Ivana Monroe said, not intending to pay attention to Julia Sinclair; she turned and hurried downstairs.
Julia Sinclair was stunned; this woman, is her brain flooded? She actually thought she was here to discuss romantic feelings?
Julia Sinclair had told herself to handle this matter calmly from the time she saw Ivana Monroe, first saying something to poke at Ivana Monroe’s suspicions, causing her and Leon to misunderstand.
Unexpectedly, Ivana Monroe didn’t give her this chance at all.
Julia Sinclair was furious; took a few deep breaths, and suddenly exclaimed, "Don’t you want to know what happened between me and your husband?"
Ivana Monroe, hearing this, indeed stopped walking.
Julia Sinclair showed an expression of triumph, "Now, are you interested in listening?"
Ivana Monroe slowly turned around, seeing Julia Sinclair standing high above, looking at her with a triumphant and disdainful gaze. She suddenly remembered Kiki Jennings, who once felt the same way, thinking she was the only one worthy to stand by Leon Keane’s side.
Ivana Monroe finally recalled where she had seen this woman?
It was at the surgery room entrance; it was the woman who pushed Leon Keane’s mother out.
Ivana Monroe had an epiphany; she calmly said, "Not interested, no matter what happened between you and my husband, those are past events, and Leon Keane is my husband now."
"I advise you not to linger in the past, as it will do you no good. You should seek your own happiness. After all, being the other woman isn’t a glorious thing, and it won’t end well."
"Who said I want to be the other woman? I’m Leon Keane’s first love. Back when we were in love, you were nowhere in sight; you’re the other woman. Let me tell you, the only person Leon Keane loves is me. You’re just a substitute, take a look in the mirror; your eyes are very similar to mine, that’s why Leon mistook you for me in a moment of impulse."