Chapter 1017: Chapter 523: Extra: What Did Last Night Mean?
He halted his steps and casually glanced at her.
Alice Robinson spoke, "You said... you can help me, right?"
Chester Robinson nodded.
Alice was very excited, habitually reaching out to hold his arm, "Just right, I have to go to the law firm. You accompany me!"
Chester said nothing.
Alice didn’t realize her action until she finished speaking. She froze for a moment and slowly let go of Chester.
Chester began walking forward again, calmly saying, "My help comes with conditions."
Alice stood confused in place.
What conditions?
He seemed not to lack anything; even money, she knew he had as much as Howard Geoffrey and Skyler Jones.
Then, what was he lacking?
Chester put on his watch, his thin lips eased, "If you can do it, I promise the Robinson inheritance will wholly and entirely be under your name."
Alice stepped forward and asked, "What do you want me to do?"
Chester glanced at Alice, "Give up Rachel’s custody."
"What did you say?" Alice’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Chester repeated in his pleasant male voice, "Give up Rachel’s custody."
Alice’s slender body suddenly stepped back a bit, her eyes widened further, murmuring, "You want me to give up Rachel’s custody?"
"Yes."
"Impossible!!" Alice reacted fiercely, rejecting outright, "No one can take Rachel’s custody from me; she is my daughter."
Chester calmly stated, "Maybe I should remind you—I am the child’s father."
Alice shouted, "But you don’t even like children!!" She still remembered their argument in T City... how he detested her and the child.
"I told you long ago, whether I like it or not, my daughter will eventually come back to me."
"Impossible..." Alice shook her head vigorously, "I gave birth to the child, and the custody is with me. No one can take her away from me."
Indeed, when Alice gave birth to Rachel, Rachel’s father’s column was blank, so except for those who knew the true relationship between Chester and Alice, no one would know Chester was Rachel’s father. Chester naturally wouldn’t have legal custody of Rachel unless he was willing to reveal his relationship with Alice.
Chester calmly expressed, "I hope you consider carefully... between your daughter and the vast Robinson inheritance, you are destined to choose only one."
His meaning was clear: if she were willing to relinquish Rachel’s custody, he would help her preserve the Robinson inheritance.
"I don’t need to consider. Even if I have nothing, I will not give up Rachel’s custody."
Alice’s answer slightly surprised Chester. He squinted his eyes, scrutinizing her, "Are you sure?"
"A thousand times a million times sure!!" Alice’s voice was hoarse with emotion, "From the day I chose to give birth to Rachel, she has been my everything, no matter what, I will never choose to give her up."
"If you have nothing, how can you support her?"
"I have hands and feet. I will find work. Even if I starve myself, I will not let Rachel starve."
She admitted, once upon a time, she was naive. That was when he was unconscious and hadn’t awakened—
At that time, she thought, when he regained consciousness and found she had given him a daughter, he would surely be pleased, and then, because of the child, they would have a different ending...
But when he woke up, she discovered she was wrong...
In fact, after he awoke, the attitude he had upon knowing she gave birth to a daughter was vastly different from what she had imagined in her mind...
There was no sweet presence and beauty of a family of three, only his resentment towards her and the child...
It turned out he pushed her away at all costs not because he cared about her, just because she was pregnant at the time and, as a doctor, he couldn’t bear to watch a small life vanish, hence he pushed her...
In other words, if she hadn’t been pregnant with his child at the time, maybe he wouldn’t have cared about her life or death...
His affection for her had always been treating her as another woman... so he could never accept her and his child.
To him, she was merely a bodily outlet, just like last night.
"With just you?" Chester sneered coldly, disdainful gaze evaluating her, "Willful, spoiled, unreasonable, and skills lacking, you think you can survive in this society?"
