George said reluctantly, “Mom asked me to calm down and get a marriage certificate with you. You gave me a son, so I should take responsibility.”
I pulled the corners of my mouth, but I couldn’t even smile bitterly.
The baby room was right next door, but he never stepped into it.
And he never took a good look at our baby.
On the contrary, I could receive protest messages from Sienna on my phone every day.
He accompanied Sienna to prenatal checkups, made nutritious meals for Sienna and personally massaged Sienna’s swollen thighs...
He gave Sienna and the baby in her belly all that tenderness and companionship.
What qualifications did he have to ask for a marriage certificate from me?
I closed my eyes, pretended to be asleep and kept silent.
I didn’t want the marriage certificate that I had been waiting for for many years.
Time passed, my health was getting better and better and the day I left was getting closer and closer.
My mother-in-law couldn’t shake my determination, so she could only smile bitterly and start to arrange things after I left.
My baby didn’t meet a good pair of parents, but fortunately, he had a mother-in-law who loved him wholeheartedly.
I decided to register my baby’s household registration under my mother-in-law’s name.
Even so, from a legal point of view, there would be no father-son relationship between the baby and George.
My mother-in-law promised with tears in her eyes.
“Don’t worry, I will take care of the baby in the future and I will not let the baby suffer any grievances.”
On the day when the baby was about to be registered, my mother-in-law asked me nervously, “You are his mother. You should name him.”
I gritted my teeth and refused.
After the name was given, there was a thought.
It was better to pretend that I had never given birth to this child.
My mother-in-law’s eyes were moist, but she said nothing.
George happened to see it.
Looking at the household registration book in the mother-in-law’s hand, he frowned.
“What are you doing?”
My mother-in-law wiped her tears and said, “You came at the right time. You can give the baby a name.”
George’s face was full of carelessness.
“It’s just a name. You can just give it by the way, no need to ask me.”
My mother-in-law disagreed, “You are the child’s father, but you are so careless in naming your child. How can you be a father at all…”
I interrupted my mother-in-law.
“Let him be.”