When Mr. and Mrs. Adam Jones arrived on the island, Elly Campbell glanced over at Harry Hall with a nonchalant air. Seeing his indifferent expression, as if Helen Melendy didn’t matter to him at all, Elly’s emotions slowly grew complicated.
After a moment of thought, she spoke up to Harry, "Don’t be too harsh on Helen. It’s not as if she really wanted to abort the child, but fate would have it otherwise. She was helpless."
Recalling the repressed sobs she heard when she left the hospital room, Elly couldn’t help but feel heartache for Helen Melendy.
She knew that Helen, even though she was stubborn and proud, saying she wanted to terminate the pregnancy, might not have the heart to actually do it.
As they once again mentioned the child that Helen had aborted, Harry’s hand gripping the fishing rod subconsciously tightened, but his face remained indifferently composed throughout.
He didn’t look at Elly, instead keeping his gaze fixed on the lake’s surface, watching ripples spread from where his trembling hand touched the water, as he smirked sardonically.
Gazing into the middle of the water, he muttered the word in a low voice, as if he found Elly’s statement somewhat laughable; he scoffed.
"Do you all like to attribute the cruel acts you commit to fate?"
He remained motionless, gripping the fishing rod tightly; if it weren’t for the fact he was speaking, Harry at this moment would have looked more like a statue sitting in the middle of the water.
Elly furrowed her brow, feeling that what Harry said seemed somewhat irrational.
It surely wasn’t reasonable to expect Helen to carry the child knowing that it would put her own life at risk, let alone how it could also harm the unborn child, right?
If Harry was truly selfish enough to think that way, then it was better for Helen to part with him sooner rather than later.
But this thought lasted only a moment before Elly dismissed it.
Harry clearly loved Helen deeply; if he knew Helen was ill and had to abort the child out of necessity, his reaction should not have been this way.
With this in mind, she turned her gaze to Adam Jones and said, "Didn’t you tell him why Helen had to abort the child?"
Seeing the reproach seeping into his beloved wife’s eyes, Adam immediately realized something was amiss.
"He said he didn’t want to know," he quickly explained, fearing the backlash, but still noticed his wife’s gaze narrowing with a hint of danger.
"So, you didn’t tell him?"
Adam touched his nose, looking somewhat guilty.
But, considering the ridiculous ’brotherly’ bond between him and Harry, he decisively chose to save his own skin.
Thus, he playfully snuggled up to his wife, wrapped his arms around her waist, and pleaded coyly,
"Didn’t you say you wouldn’t interfere with their matters anymore?"
Elly was taken aback by Adam’s question, but then quickly responded, "Not interfering is one thing, but should we allow Helen to be so misunderstood? As if she had committed some unforgivable sin."
The second half of Elly’s words were, of course, intended for Harry’s ears.
Harry wasn’t foolish, and from the couple’s conversation, he could discern something was off.
He remembered the day in the cafe when Adam Jones had suddenly asked him if he wanted to know why Helen Melendy had chosen to abort the child.
At that time, he was angry that Helen had gone ahead with the abortion without a word, so in his pique, he had refused.
But now, it seemed that maybe Helen truly had a compelling reason to terminate the pregnancy, rather than what she had said on the plane that day, simply not wanting an extra burden?