Chapter 716: Chapter 716: Making it up to Her_1
Caitlin Carter gradually came back to reality.
If it was about this matter, she actually knew some of it.
She and Christopher Simonson were introduced by elders in a form of matchmaking, and by that time, Christopher Simonson had already turned thirty and had dated a girlfriend before.
That was not a big deal. Isn’t it normal for a thirty-year-old man to have had a girlfriend? Even Caitlin herself had someone she liked during her student days. Who doesn’t have a bit of unrequited love in their youth?
She did not mind it and earnestly got to know Christopher Simonson and then, as things went naturally, they got married.
Once, she accidentally discovered this photo album where every picture was a group photo, but the other half had been cut out, leaving them incomplete.
By that time, she had been married to Christopher Simonson for several years already, and their relationship was stable, so she did not shy away from asking him about it.
Christopher Simonson said that his ex-girlfriend cut the pictures when they broke up.
He also said that keeping these photos was meaningless and told her to dispose of them however she saw fit.
Caitlin, being cautious by nature, always took good care of them, feeling that burning or throwing them away carelessly was disrespectful, after all, these photos were also a part of Christopher Simonson’s past experiences.
But she never expected that the woman missing from the photos was Meredith Richards.
“But… you said you two broke up,” Caitlin Carter looked at him in a daze, “If she was carrying your child, why would she propose a breakup?”
Christopher Simonson slowly shook his head, “I don’t know.”
Caitlin then asked him, “The news said that after Meredith Richards gave birth, she jumped from a building and committed suicide. Did you know that?”
Christopher Simonson closed his eyes in pain, enveloped by gloom, “I didn’t know…”
He didn’t know anything.
Meredith was a woman with deep pride. When she agreed to be with him, she was resolute and when she decided to leave him, she didn’t drag it out, leaving nothing behind for him.
Even in their shared photos, she had to cut out her own half!
Those days were hard to endure, and because of that, he had a strained relationship with his mother and drowned his sorrows in alcohol. Eventually, his mother chose another high-profile lady for him and forced him into marriage. Unable to stay at home, he simply ran away.
At that time, he also thought of looking for Meredith, not to reconcile, for Meredith was young and proud, and so was Christopher Simonson.
The favored son of the heavens, only in his early twenties, got dumped by a woman. Apart from heartache, there was also a feeling of unwillingness to accept it.
Unfortunately, he was intercepted on his way of running away from home. His father and uncles threw him into the military, and he stayed there for seven or eight years…
Time is a wonderful thing; it allows people to forget their pain.
Time is also a cruel thing; it distorts many people and many things beyond recognition.
After leaving the military, Christopher Simonson had matured and become more steady. His youthful emotions were buried deep inside as he accepted the political path his family arranged for him, and at the same time, he married Caitlin.
Through the quietly passing years, sometimes in the middle of the night, he would dream of that stunning woman he once knew. In his groggy state, he would think: perhaps Meredith never existed, perhaps she was just a dream, glamorous and ephemeral…
But he never expected that he would have a child.
The heartless Meredith had, without his knowledge and in a place he couldn’t see, given birth to his daughter!
Christopher Simonson’s heart clenched tightly, it was almost shattering!
Eighteen years ago, attitudes were not as open as they are today; having a child out of wedlock would attract nothing but contemptuous stares! Gossip and slander were enough to ruin a person, and how could that proud woman have borne it?!
“It is I who have wronged her!” Christopher Simonson gripped Caitlin Carter’s hand with heavy sorrow in his voice, “Caitlin, if… if Ms. Summers is indeed my daughter, I want to take her back and make amends to her properly!”
Caitlin’s heart was also heavy. Having been married for so many years, she thought she had a loyal husband, but to suddenly have a daughter emerge from outside their relationship was something no one could easily accept.
Yet, after thinking it through, she could not blame him; it was just the play of fate.
Caitlin nodded and said, “Okay.”