She felt the strength that Adam Jones resting on her belly was increasing, as if...
If he had any internal strength right now, the child would be dead by his hand.
Adding to that, he was completely silent, and Elly Campbell suddenly remembered the time in the RL ward when Adam Jones stared at her belly with those eyes filled with murderous intent and icy coldness, scaring her heart into a violent tremble, her feet retreating several steps backward.
Startled by her movement, Adam lifted his gaze to look at her, the murderous intent in his eyes not fading, which frightened Elly into instinctively protecting her abdomen, watching him warily.
"Adam, what are you doing!"
She watched Adam Jones with a trembling voice, filled with shock and horror.
She had always known that there was something off about Adam Jones, just the unexplained amnesia alone was very strange.
The first time she saw him gathering murderous intent towards her belly, she thought she saw it wrong, but this time, she saw that look on his face again.
Adam was momentarily stunned, and seeing the wariness in Elly’s eyes, a pain struck his heart, and the depths of his eyes were tinged with sadness and panic.
He somewhat awkwardly wanted to open his mouth to explain but didn’t know where to start.
"Elly, I... I don’t know..."
It wasn’t just Elly, even he himself had just felt a strong urge to kill the child.
For that instant, his mind was overtaken by a single thought, to push Elly down and let the child die inside her.
This was his child, how could he harbor such a terrible thought...
He looked at Elly with eyes full of helplessness, like a child who had done something wrong, fearing that he would be abandoned by her, incessantly trying to defend himself—
"Elly, I don’t know... Believe me, I don’t know why I just..."
Elly was moved by his utterly bewildered state, let go of the wariness in her eyes, stepped forward to tightly embrace him, and placed her face against his chest, soothing him:
"I know, I know it’s not your fault, you’re sick, Adam..."
"No, I’m not sick, someone must have done something to me, Elly, just now wasn’t my intention..."
Adam Jones held Elly tightly, nearly wanting to fuse her into his flesh and blood, frantically trying to explain.
"I don’t know what I’m doing, Elly..."
"It’s okay, once we find out who’s behind this, get to the root of it, we can solve everything."
Elly patted his back, her soft voice comforting him, feeling the hands embracing her, tightening little by little, yet emitting a strong sense of powerlessness.
"Elly, don’t leave me."
Hearing such a lost and insecure statement come from Adam Jones’s mouth, Elly’s heart took a heavy hit.
The hands around his waist also increased their strength: "I won’t, I’ll never leave you."
She could vividly feel his unease, his panic, like a child abandoned by the world, having no idea what he did wrong, just seeking someone to accompany him without reservation, to take him home.
The two of them stayed in that embrace for what seemed like half an hour, before Elly felt Adam Jones’s panicked emotions gradually calm down.
Elly lifted her head from his embrace, looked at him, and said with a resolute expression:
"Don’t worry, I won’t leave you, I won’t abandon you, even if the whole world gives up on you, then I will be your world, and you are my world too."